Pinchbeck is a village near Spalding

Spalding, Lincolnshire

Spalding is a market town with a population of 30,000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172 road....

 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...

. The name Pinchbeck is derived from either the Old English pinc+bece (Minnow Stream) or pinca+bece (Finch Ridge).

Pinchbeck falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board

Internal Drainage Board

An internal drainage board is a type of operating authority which is established in areas of special drainage need in England and Wales with permissive powers to undertake work to secure clean water drainage and water level management within drainage districts...

. The board maintains a fine museum at Pinchbeck Engine

Pinchbeck Engine

The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England...

, which was built to drain Pinchbeck Marsh in the early 19th century.

Education

Primary schools

• Pinchbeck East C of E Primary School Pinchbeck East C of E Primary School
• Pinchbeck West St Bartholomew's C of E Primary School

Landmarks and facilities

Spalding Flower Bulb Museum

Inspired by the memories of the people from the South Lincolnshire Fens, the Spalding Flower Bulb Museum was opened in 1995 to preserve the history of the industry for future generations. Having spanned more than 120 years the bulb industry has played a vital role in the local economy and been a source of employment for thousands of people. The 50-seat Gardeners' Theatre shows a 15-minute film presentation which, along with a series of storyboards and static exhibits, including two vintage tractors and a lifesize model of a Shire horse

Shire horse

The Shire horse is a breed of draught horse or draft horse . The breed comes in many colours, including black, bay and grey. They are a tall breed, with mares standing and over and stallions standing and over. The breed has an enormous capacity for weight pulling, and Shires have held the world...

, together with reconstructed original buildings containing the actual equipment used, all help to recreate the history of an industry unique to the Spalding area. Other outdoor exhibits include a 1904 flower forcing glasshouse, a blacksmith

Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut...

's shop, a bulb grading shed and the original Spalding cattle market auction hall with its unique iron girder roof. The collection includes horse carts, ploughs, bulb graders, weighing scales, sack winders, a gravity fed boiler in a sunken boiler house and hovels full of equipment. Spalding Flower Bulb Museum is open from 10.00am to 4.00pm seven-days-a-week between April 1 and October 31, with winter opening by request.

St Mary's Church

The Anglican church in Pinchbeck is St. Mary's, which has stood on this location for over 1,000 years. St Mary’s Church is a fine Medieval building which is still prominent in the landscape. It has a wide and uncluttered nave based around mid-12th century arches, and topped with a very fine 15th century single hammer beam roof supported by large gilded angels, which carry the heraldic escutcheons of the Pinchbeck family. The chancel is a good example of the work of the Victorian restorer, Herbert Butterfield.