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Sausthorpe, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Sausthorpe, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Steeping, 2½ miles NW of Spilsby station on a branch of the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Spilsby; money order and telegraph office, Partney. Acreage, 748; population, 148. The manor, with Sausthorpe Hall, a modern mansion standing in a park of 30 acres, belongs to the Swan family. The living is a rectory, consolidated in 1882 with that of Aswardby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £345. The church, rebuilt in 1844, is a building of brick in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower with a crocketed spire. It was restored in 1891. Population of the united ecclesiastical parishes, 237.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Ecclesiastical parishSausthorpe St. Andrew 
HundredHill 
Poor Law unionSpilsby 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Sausthorpe:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1566-1911 1568-18371568-1911

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sausthorpe from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Sausthorpe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictEast Lindsey
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtPE23
Post TownSpilsby

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