The Deepings

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The Deepings are nestled in the Lincolnshire Fens, between Peterborough, Stamford and Spalding. The Deeping include Market Deeping (a lovely market town), Deeping St James (one of the largest of the Deeping villages), Deeping St Nicolas, Deeping Gate and West Deeping. Their name is Saxon for “deep lands” or “deep place”. The River Welland runs through them, and it can be picturesque and relaxing to walk along it.

Boston Ramblers

Join Boston Ramblers for a walk around Market Deeping on Celebrate the Fens weekend.

Boston Ramblers are a walking group who put on various rambles across the year in Lincolnshire. Walking outside is great for your fitness and your wellbeing. They aim to help people enjoy walking and to protect the places they walk in.

Boston Ramblers are part of Britain’s walking charity, working to protect and expand the places people love to walk and promote walking for health and pleasure.

Activity: A full day moderate walk of about 8 miles for adults.

Date/Time: Sunday 18th June 2023, 10.30am – 3pm.

Venue/address: Please meet at the car park off Godsey Lane, Market Deeping, PE6 8HT. What three words: colder. elbow. simulates

Cost: Free

Other information:

Please wear walking boots/shoes, and waterproofs in case of inclement weather. Please bring a packed lunch. Please do not bring dogs.

Please note the walk is not wheelchair accessible.

Fascinating Fens values: nature, community and wellbeing.

Join us tonight for #FenFolksFriday free on zoom, where Nicola Oldfield will be speaking on ‘Following Vermuyden’s Footsteps’. Please book in advance:

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We all know that Vermuyden was infamous in creating the Fens we love today, but have you ever wondered why, after 370 years, the infrastructure that manages water levels is still so important? Who looks after the banks, drains, pumping stations and the wonder that is the Ouse Washes?

From the Duke of Bedford Primary School to Chief Engineer of the Middle Level, Nicola will trace her involvement in Fenland drainage, following the engineers of the past and explain how Fenland drainage is managed today.  And she will try and answer that long debated question – why do engineers spend so much time standing around looking in holes?!

Please book via: Fen Folks Fridays – Fascinating Fens

Join us tomorrow for free zoom #FenFolksFriday, where Mike Petty will join us for his talk: Pickwicks Fenland Scrapbook, click for more info and booking details

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When Samuel Pickwick, famous for his “Pickwick’s Papers”, visited Cambridge in 1838 he met a host of fascinating characters who shared a wealth of fascinating details about their life and times. 

He recorded their stories in an undiscovered Scrapbook.

From bargees he learns of the problems of drainage, of floods and skating;. He learns of the hardship which lead to the Littleport Riots of 1816, of more riots over enclosure and the coming of threshing machines. 

While many of the local poor were chained in Ely Gaol or forced into the new Union Workhouses, strangers flocked to a Community in the fens at Manea, only to have their dreams of Utopia dashed.

In this presentation Mike Petty will share some of their stories

Please book via our website: https://fascinatingfens.com/fen-folks-friday/