Counthorpe is a hamlet in the
civil parish
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of
Counthorpe and Creeton in the
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...
district of
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...
, England. It adjoins the hamlet of
Creeton
Creeton is a village in the civil parish of Counthorpe and Creeton in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south west from Bourne and south from Corby Glen, on the River Glen. In 1921 the parish had a popula ...
and lies south-west from
Bourne and south from
Corby Glen
Corby Glen, formerly just Corby, is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately south-east of Grantham and north west of Bourne. In 2011 it had a population of 1,017.
History
The ...
, and on the
River Glen.
In the ''
Domesday
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'' account Counthorpe is written as "Cudetorp". Before the
Conquest
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lordship
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was held by
Earl Morcar; after,
Drogo de la Beuvrière
Drogo de la Bouerer (also recorded as ''Drogo of la Beuvrière'', ''Drogo de la Bouerer''.) was a Flemish associate of William the Conqueror, who was rewarded after the conquest with a large grant of land in northern and eastern England, primarily ...
became
Tenant-in-chief
In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them ...
.
Counthorpe shares the
Grade I
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listed
Anglican
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parish church at Creeton, dedicated to
St Peter
Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repe ...
. The church is of late
Decorated style. A restoration of 1851 discovered the arches and
piers of a former
Norman
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* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norma ...
aisle. The church holds a
chained bible from 1611. Two examples of
Saxon
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crosses stand in the churchyard, with 20 stone coffins considered to mark the interment of
Cistercian
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monks of Vallis Dei abbey in the neighbouring parish of
Edenham
Edenham ( ) is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven Non-metropolitan district, district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north-west of Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, and on the A151 road. While the civil parish is calle ...
.
[ Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 108; Methuen & Co. Ltd]
Counthorpe was formerly a hamlet in the parish of
Castle Bytham and had, up to the 16th century, its own parochial chapel,
[ but was annexed to Creeton in 1860.
Counthorpe is recorded in the 1872 '' White's Directory'' as a small village in the parish of Castle Bytham, but which, for ]