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'''Grimsthorpe''' is a hamlet in [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]] situated about four miles north-west of [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]] on the [[A151 road|A151]]. It falls within the parish of [[Edenham]]. |
'''Grimsthorpe''' is a hamlet in [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]] situated about four miles north-west of [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]] on the [[A151 road|A151]]. It falls within the parish of [[Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe]]. |
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Nearby is [[Grimsthorpe Castle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=348511|title=National monument record for Castle}}</ref> |
Nearby is [[Grimsthorpe Castle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=348511|title=National monument record for Castle}}</ref> |
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Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England situated about four miles north-west of Bourne on the A151. It falls within the parish of Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe.
Nearby is Grimsthorpe Castle.[2]
A victorian gazetteer described Grimsthorpe like this:[3]
GRIMSTHORPE, a hamlet in Edenham parish, Lincoln; on the river Glen, 1½ mile W of Edenham village. Pop., 135. Grimsthorpe Park was the seat once of the Duke of Ancaster, afterwards of Lord Gwyder; is now the seat of Lord Willinghby d'Eresby; was built partly in the time of Henry III., but principally by the Duke of Suffolk, to entertain Henry VIII.; is a large, irregular, but magnificent structure; and stands in an ornate park, abint 16 miles in circuit. A Cistertian abbey, founded about 1451, by the Earl of Albemarle, and called Vallis Dei, or, vulgarly, Vaudy, formerly stood in the park, about a mile from the castle.
Businesses
The majority of employment in the village is in agriculture or at the Castle
- Black Horse inn
References
- ^ "Parish council details".
- ^ "National monument record for Castle".
- ^ Wilson, John Marius, ed. (1872). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.