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Shouldn't this be at either Boston, Lincolnshire or Boston, United Kingdom? john 09:47, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed/Todo

Copyedit

Working on it. Zerbey 00:15, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

20th and 21st century history

I've had a hard time finding solid information on this (I wish my Father had an internet connection!), anyone care to volunteer to update this area? Zerbey 00:15, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sites of Interest

Needs a huge expansion, especially the May Day.

Derivation of the name 'Holland'

I've removed the reference to the name [[Holland, England|Holland] deriving from the visitations of Dutch drainage engineers - this simply isn't true. Southeastern Lincolnshire was called 'Holland' (actually, Hoiland) as least as far back as the Domesday Book, and thus the name far predates the draining of the Fens. The Oxford English Dictionary (in a secondary reference) gives the derivation as HOLL' ("deeply excavated or depressed") + LAND (as opposed to HOLT ("wood") + LAND for the province of the Netherlands). TheVenerableBede

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