Hubberts Bridge
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Hubberts Bridge is a village in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, about three miles west of Boston
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...

 and within the civil parish of Frampton
Frampton
- UK :Frampton means "farmstead on the River Frome", of which there are several.*Frampton, Dorset*Frampton, Lincolnshire*Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire*Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire*Frampton Mansell, Gloucestershire...

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The village name comes from the bridge crossing the South Forty-Foot Drain
South Forty-foot drain
The South Forty-Foot Drain is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston...

. Originally it was a wooden structure, and a new wooden bridge was erected about 1850, but was replaced again by a brick structure in 1888 by the County Justices for the Parts of Holland from designs of Mr John Kingston, County Surveyor.

The village is served by Hubberts Bridge railway station
Hubberts Bridge railway station
Hubberts Bridge railway station serves the village of Hubberts Bridge in Lincolnshire, England. It is located on the to section of the to line. Opened along with the line in 1859, its signal box supervises a level crossing and the western end of the single track section from...

, and has a local public house
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...

, the Wheatsheaf Inn, and a Community Centre.

Boston West Golf Club, an 18 hole golf course with a driving range, is located here.
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