Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CAYTHORPE

CAYTHORPE, a village and a parish in the district of Newark and county of Lincoln. The village stands near the Grantham and Lincoln railway, 9 miles N by E of Grantham; and has a post office‡ under Grantham, a r. station, and a fair on the second Friday after Good Friday. The parish includes also Friston hamlet. Acres, 4,210. Real property, £8,038. Pop., 822. Houses, 178. The property is much subdivided. Caythorpe Hall is the seat of G. H. Packe, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £976.* Patron, G. H. Packe, Esq. The church is cruciform and decorated English; suffered extensive injury, with destruction of a beautiful spire, by a storm in 1859; and has been subsequently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £7.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Caythorpe AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Caythorpe

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