Londonthorpe

Londonthorpe

High Road, Londonthorpe
Londonthorpe
 Londonthorpe shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceSK953379
   – London 110 mi (180 km)  S
Civil parishLondonthorpe and Harrowby Without
DistrictSouth Kesteven
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Grantham
Postcode district NG31
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentGrantham and Stamford
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Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 52°55′N 0°35′W / 52.92°N 0.58°W

Londonthorpe is a satellite village of Grantham, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies 3 miles (5 km) to the north-east from Grantham, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west from the B6403 (Ermine Street Roman road), and borders Belton Park in the west.

The village is part of the civil parish of Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without. Until 1931 Londonthorpe had been a civil parish in its own right.[1][2]

According to A Dictionary of British Place Names 'Londonthorpe' derives from the Old Scandinavian lundr+thorp, meaning an "outlying farmstead or hamlet by a grove."[3] In the Domesday account the village is written as "Lundertorp."[4][5]

The parish is centred on Grade II listed Harrowby Hall,[1][6] Londonthorpe previously being an estate village of Harrowby Estate. The village listed buildings include The Grange farm house,[7] the Manor House,[8] and various other houses and cottages.[9] Listed buildings within the larger Londonthorpe and Harrowby parish include the Officer's Mess of the Second World War RAF Spitalgate, and buildings and structures within Belton Park.[9]

The Grade II* listed parish church is dedicated to St John Baptist, the tower of which dates to the early 13th century and parts of the rood screen to the 15th. The church was rebuilt with a new roof in 1850, with considerable further restoration taking place in 1879.[10][11][12][13] The churchyard contains the war graves of 32 Commonwealth armed service personnel of the First World War, at which time an army training camp existed at Belton Park to the west.[14]

Earthworks of unknown origin lie to the west of the church[15]

Land Settlement map

Londonthorpe Wood and Alma park Wood, created in 1993 by the Woodland Trust, is within the parish 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west.[16][17] The parish also includes Prince William of Gloucester Barracks (previously RAF Spitalgate) and parts of eastern Grantham, particularly Alma Park Industrial Estate.[18]

During the 1930s the parish was a centre for the Land Settlement Association scheme, a social experiment where unemployed Durham miners were offered specially built cottages with smallholdings of land and livestock, to encourage self-sufficiency.[1][19]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "History of the Parish", Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without Parish Council, Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  2. ↑ Youngs, Frederic A (1991). Guide to Local Administrative Units: Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 271. ISBN 978-0861931279.
  3. ↑ Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), pp. 305. ISBN 019960908X
  4. ↑ Marrat, W. (2010) The History of Lincolnshire, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive pp. 269-272 BiblioBazaar ISBN 1-143-37575-0
  5. ↑ Londonthorpe, Genuki. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Harrowby Hall (505928 )". PastScape. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. ↑ The Grange, Londonthorpe, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  8. ↑ Manor House, Londonthorpe, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 British Listed Buildings: Londonthorpe. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  10. ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire. Methuen & Co. Ltd., p. 218
  11. ↑ The Parish of St John the Baptist Londonthorpe, stjohnlondonthorpe.org.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  12. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist (325554 )". PastScape. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  13. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist, Church Lane  (Grade II*) (1253207)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  14. ↑ Londonthorpe (St John the Baptist) Churchyard, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 17 January 2015
  15. ↑ "Earthworks, west of Londonthorpe Church, Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without", Lincs to the past, Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  16. ↑ Londonthorpe Wood, The Woodland Trust. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  17. ↑ Alma Park Wood, The Woodland Trust. Retrieved 17 January 2015
  18. ↑ Alma Park Industrial Estate, streetmap.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2011
  19. ↑ "Land Settlement Association", University of Reading. Retrieved 18 August 2011

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