South Holland

South Holland, district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England. It occupies an area of reclaimed marshland within the Fens in the southern part of the county. Spalding, an ancient market town and now the administrative centre of the district, is a headquarters for an elaborate drainage and flood-control system in the Fens. South Holland borders The Wash, a shallow bay of the North Sea, to the northeast. The dry flatlands in the north...