| Kirkby la Thorpe | |
St Denys, Kirkby la Thorpe |
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Kirkby la Thorpe
Kirkby la Thorpe shown within Lincolnshire |
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| Population | 1,041 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | TF098458 |
| District | North Kesteven |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | NG34 9 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Sleaford and North Hykeham |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Kirkby la Thorpe is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England.
There are about 45 people who live in the village itself, although the civil parish extends to take in that part of Sleaford that lies to the south-east of the town's Boston Road Police Station, including the Poets Estate. In the late 1990s Sleaford Town Council attempted to persuade those residents to agree to a change in the parish boundary, in order to realign it with the town's curtilage, but this was rejected.[1]
The village is served by a Church of England primary school, comprising the original 1860 building with its large classroom and school hall, together with an extension housing three additional classrooms, cloakroom and library that was opened in April 2004 and two further rooms, which were added in the summer of 2011.[2]
The parish church is dedicated to St Denys and was part of the Leasingham group of churches until the latter part of 2009, when the Ecclesiastical Parishes of Kirkby Laythorpe and Ewerby became part of the benefice of New Sleaford, to be held in plurality.[3]
The village pub is the Queens Head Inn on Boston Road (winner of the Lincolnshire Life's best pub restaurant in 2001). The village is near the start of the A17 Sleaford bypass.
There are three possible Deserted Medieval Village sites in the parish.[4][5][6] Which have been identified with the three known names of Thorpe, Laythorpe and Burgh, from written records including Domesday. It is unlikely the mystery of which is which can ever be resolved.[7]