Counthorpe and Creeton is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford. The 2011 census reports 133,788 people at 1.4 per ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershir ...

, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 97 across 45 homes.

Summary

The civil parish includes the hamlets of

Counthorpe Counthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Counthorpe and Creeton in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It adjoins the hamlet of Creeton and lies south-west from Bourne and south from Corby Glen, and on the River Glen. ...

and

Creeton Creeton is a hamlet 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. Creeton Grade I listed Anglic ...

, to the East of the railway line. The Western half is entirely Rural save for the stone quarries. There are no major roads through the parish, though the London-Edinburgh railway line bisects the parish. The parish is crossed by the B1176 Swinstead to Little Bytham road on the eastern half, and at the western extremity by a minor road from Swayfield to Castle Bytham. These two north–south routes are joined by two minor roads that pass east–west through the parish, meeting at the quarry before passing under the railway line at . A large limestone quarry, at , is known as Creeton Quarry, even though it is properly in Counthorpe. It produces fine limestone for building purposes. Several small streams rise in the Parish, most of which drain into the West Glen river. There are several springs neat Counthorpe House. There is a steep-sided valley south of the Quarries, through which one of the springs drains North-west, falling from around 75 or 80m to just below 55m at the bottom of the valley. To the east the west Glen runs in a wider U-shaped valley with an alluvial floor. The river is between 55m contours, with the land rising to east and west to more than 65m. Local Democracy takes the form of a

Parish Meeting A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou ...

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* * {{Lincolnshire, state=collapsed Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District