Fleet Hargate

Fleet Hargate is a village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2mi east from Holbeach, and just south from the A17 road. It falls within the wider civil parish of Fleet, which stretches from Gedney to Holbeach with a total estimated population in 2011 of 2,136.CommunityThe village of Fleet Hargate has been designated a conservation area by South Holland District Council, one of 13 within the district.Village amenities are a post office, two public houses, the Rose and Crown and The Bull, a caravan park, a day nursery, and a farm shop that includes a garden centre and tea room.HistoryThe village now sits just south of the A17, although previously the main road ran through the village. The Old Main Road as it is now named was part of the Boston to Lynn road, managed in part by the original Holbeach Turnpike trust.The now closed Fleet railway station, formerly of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, is on Eastgate. It was served by the Fleet Light Railway, a potato railway built around 1910 to connect the Worth family farms to the mainline railway.