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It meets a roundabout for Swineshead and passes through Drayton, meets the B1391 as Abbey Lane, then Drayton Road. At Baythorpe passing the popular 2014 FARMA award-winning Manor Farm Shop Best UK small farm shop it becomes Boston Road and the B1192 joins to the left at Kirton Holme. At the Poachers Hotel it becomes Swineshead Road.
Swineshead is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England. It is 7 miles (11 km) west of the town of Boston . The population of the civil parish including Baythorpe was 2,810 at the 2011 census. [ 1 ]
In 1983, General Motors, decided to idle, then shutter, the Framingham Assembly, citing its small size and issues with town leaders. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The plant was later shut down in 1989 (labor contracts prohibited closing the plant until 1990), laying off 2,100 workers, down from a peak of 5,000 from Connecticut , New Hampshire , Rhode ...
The Framingham location was the center of several contentious tug-of-wars between Governor Michael Dukakis and local politician Anthony M. Colonna.After the town refused to sell General Motors a 35-acre (140,000 m 2), town-owned piece of property GM desired for the construction of a new paint and plastics facility, [3] Dukakis used the state's power of eminent domain to take the property from ...
The Ye Olde Red Lion public house is on Donington Road. The village has a post office with a shop, [4] and a parish church dedicated to St Swithin. [5]North of the main line of 400 kV pylons is the Bicker Fen windfarm consisting of 13 turbines producing 26 MW (2 MW each), enough for 14,000 homes.
At Swineshead Bridge there is a left turn for the A1121, for Boston, and the road is crossed by the Poacher Line at a level crossing [9] next to the Barge Inn [10] and Swineshead railway station. Swineshead was bypassed in 1985, and the former route leaves at the High Bridge Junction], [11] passing The Ivy farm shop, which is sister to the ...
Museum visitors had the opportunity to see high-wheeled-bicycle demonstrations, and ride in a vintage-1937 fire engine named for Boston Pops conductor and firefighting-memorabilia enthusiast Arthur Fiedler. The Museum of Transportation at Larz Anderson Park closed on December 31, 1977, and effected a partnership with The Children's Museum of ...
Boston's coat of arms: Sable, three crowns paly Or [6]. The name Boston is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", [6] "stone" or "tun" (Old English, Old Norse and modern Norwegian for a hamlet or farm; hence the Latin villa Sancti Botulfi "St. Botulf's village"). [7]