Throckenholt


Throckenholt is a village in the civil parish of Sutton St Edmund in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located close to the border of Cambridgeshire about south-east of Spalding, west of Wisbech and south of Holbeach.
The Museum of Technology, The Great War and WWII is located in the village and opened its doors in 2016.
Throckenholt Priory was sited here, it was a hermitage and chapel in existence from at least 1107–1540. It was granted to Thorney Abbey by Nigel, Bishop of Ely.
Throckenholt was written as 'Trokenholt' in the 1240 Papal Rolls.