The Deepings is a collective term used to describe adjoining villages 8 miles to the North of Peterborough and 10 miles to the East of Stamford. The area is just north of the Cambridgeshire border, lying in the Lincolnshire fens.

With a total population of approx. 14,900, of whom a lot are retired, the town is a close-knit community. It has a large church-going population to the two beautiful limestone churches, one in Market Deeping (Saint Guthlac's church), and the other in the village of Deeping St James (the parish church of Deeping St James). The route of the Car Dyke runs through the area.

As well as these two settlements, other villages that are sometimes included in The Deepings are Deeping Gate, a small hamlet, Deeping St Nicholas to the north east on the A16 Spalding road, the longest village in Britain, and to the west West Deeping.

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