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Folkingham is a village and civil parish at the northern edge of the South Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A15 road 11 miles (18 km) north of Bourne. The civil parish and ecclesiastical parish have the same boundaries. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 729. Today the local economy is still mainly agriculture-based. Every five or six years Folkingham suffers from flooding, caused by water gathering on the old RAF base swelling the river flowing through the village. The floods usually start at Millennium Green, then spread onto the A15 and into Billingborough Road. The village owes its origin to the meeting place of traders, farmers, huntsmen, robbers and pedlars. The name "Folkingham" (or "Falkingham", as the village was previously written) derives from the Domesday entry "Folchingeham", and is said to derive from the word "folch" or "falx", meaning a sickle. Another spelling, also based on Domesday is "Fulchingeham", which has been interpreted as "the Ham of Fulca's people". For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Folkingham. [edit] Research TipsLincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason. There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list. From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland, Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey. These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.
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