In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Caythorpe like this:
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.
Caythorpe through time
Caythorpe is now part of South Kesteven district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Kesteven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Caythorpe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Caythorpe, in South Kesteven and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11922
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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