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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sausthorpe St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Hill | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1566-1911 | 1568-1837 | 1568-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sausthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sausthorpe (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Sausthorpe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: