31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of All SaintsGrade I listedCemetery ChapelsGrade II listed

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

1900s

1907

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 6 entries were listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Henry Holbeach

William Stukeley

Claud Worth

Norman Angell

Cyril Lowe

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Norman Angell1872–1967 · English politician (1872–1967)

William Stukeley1687–1765 · English antiquarian (1687–1765)

Cyril Lowe1891–1983 · British flying ace and rugby union footballer

HH

Henry Holbeach1477–1551 · British bishop

CW

Claud Worth1869–1936 · British ophthalmologist and mariner

Everyone born in Holbeach → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 31 listed buildings in Holbeach, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of All Saints. Only 92 of the 710 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 65% are houses, terraces and villas.

Norman Angell (1872), William Stukeley (1687) and Cyril Lowe (1891) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 19 of 31. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.