Whaplode Drove

12°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 12° / 7° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:28

9h 30m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Northampton Spring Park, United Kingdom

• 6.9 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

3 reported · August 2026▼ 40% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Burglary1
• Other theft1

Neighbourhood team: Holbeach Town and Rural · Lincolnshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

210 reported road collisions (2025)

36 killed or seriously injured · 261 casualties · 22.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

11 food businesses within 2 miles

• 10 rated 4–5 ★ (8 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£226,156 average▲ 1.8% YoY

Across South Holland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£775 average monthly rent▲ 4.2% YoY

• 1 bed £593
• 2 bed £739
• 3 bed £902

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.8 times median annual pay (7.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,432 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

95,122 residents in South Holland · 127/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,125
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,319
• Net moves+1,806

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 100 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,278 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (37% of 44,760)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

48 schools · 13,743 pupils

36 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 16 of 20 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (80%)

45 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · South Holland

710 CQC-registered services

• Care homes284
• GP practices108
• Dentists126
• Homecare agencies128
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lincolnshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 2 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

140 applications decided

74.3% granted · 104 granted, 36 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative majority

• Con 19
• Ref 6
• Oth 12

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

4,540 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

34 jobs advertised · £40,873 avg

e.g. Part-Time Senior Accountant, Cleaner, Accounts & Finance Specialist 6 months

Source: Adzuna

£673 median full-time weekly pay

3.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,847 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 48,715 certificates

11.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 79.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Lincolnshire): 58.6 women · 58.6 men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

4 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in PE12

• Holbeach Medical Centre
• Moulton Medical Centre
• Long Sutton Medical Ctr.

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Holland and The Deepings:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases517 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects305 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills207 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth176 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND174 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Whaplode Drove · 0.0 km

  Whaplode Drove is a village in the civil parish of Whaplode, in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately 10 miles (16 km) south from the market town of Spalding. The hamlet of Shepeau S…

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  Holbeach Drove · 1.2 km

  Holbeach Drove is a village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east from Crowland, and at the junction of the B1166 and the B1168 roads.

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  Shepeau Stow, Lincolnshire · 1.7 km

  Shepeau Stow is a hamlet in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is at the north-east edge of Whaplode civil parish, where it adjoins Crowland civil parish, and on the B1166 Hull's Drove road. Shepe…

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  Postland railway station · 2.9 km

  Postland railway station was a station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway in Crowland, Lincolnshire, which is now closed. It took its name from the Postland estate, owned by the Marquess of Exeter.…

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  Fenland Airfield · 4.3 km

  Fenland Airfield or Fenland Aerodrome is located 6 nautical miles southeast of the town Spalding near the small village of Holbeach St Johns in Lincolnshire, England.

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  Gedney Hill · 4.4 km

  Gedney Hill is a village and civil parish in South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 737. It is situated close to the border of Cambridgeshire, and ap…

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