Farlesthorpe is a

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in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Lincolnshire, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, L ...

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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 is situated approximately south-east from Alford, and about north-east from

Spilsby Spilsby is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town is adjacent to the main A16 road (England), A16, east of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln, north-east of Boston ...

. It is in the

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Bilsby Bilsby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the main A1111 road between Alford and Sutton-on-Sea, east of Alford. Thurlby and Asserby are hamlets within Bilsby parish. The censuses sh ...

. Dating from the 9th Century, Farlesthorpe was originally a Danish settlement. The origins of the name of Farlesthorpe are unknown but in the ''

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

'' it is given as "Haroldestrop". It has also been spelt as Earlsthorpe and Faraldesthorpe. The first church was built in the early 13th Century and dedicated to

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. The present

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listed church was built in 1800, of brick and stone, and restored in 1881Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 125; Methuen & Co. Ltd and 1953. The small polygonal

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with an

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and lancets was added in 1912. The altar slab is ancient, and there is a large stone

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with a wooden lid. The East Coast Main Line railway used to run through the village, and the disused trackbed is now part of a

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* {{Authority control East Lindsey District Hamlets in Lincolnshire