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Spalding is a market town with a population of 28,722 (2011 census) on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbeck, a village to the north, is part of the built-up area. The town was well known for its annual Spalding Flower Parade, dating from 1959, which attracted many regular visitors from around the world. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the cultural links between the Fens and the landscape and people of South Holland. At one time, it attracted crowds up more than 100,000, but attendance decreased to fewer than 40,000 in 2012. That year, two local councils announced they would no longer fund the parade, and the 2013 parade was the last.〔("Spalding Flower Parade held for last time" ), BBC News, 4 May 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013〕 Since 2002 the town has held an annual Pumpkin Festival (not linked to Hallowe'en) in October. ==History== Archeological excavations at Wygate Park in Spalding have shown that there has been occupation in this area from at least the Roman period, when this part of Lincolnshire was used for the production of salt. It was a coastal siltland. At Wygate Park salt making seems to have come to an end by the mid-3rd century AD; climatic change and flooding may have made such activities difficult, causing the practice to die out.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sholland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/1243ADCD-CA9A-4F20-B2D1-9080A3182AE5/0/WideHorizonsTextOnlyVersion.pdf )〕 The settlement's name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century. They may have retained their administrative independence within the Kingdom of Mercia into the late 9th century, when Stamford became one of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands under Danish control after years of invasion and occupation. In John Bartholomew's ''Gazetteer of the British Isles'' (1887), Spalding was described as a:
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