Kingthorpe is a hamlet in the

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district of

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, England. The hamlet is in the

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Apley Apley is a hamlet and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the hamlet of Kingthorpe and the site of Kingthorpe railway station, and approximately south-west from Wragby. Apley chur ...

, and is east from the city and county town of

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and south from the

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. It sits on the B1202 road from

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, and to the east from the parish village of Apley. Kingthorp is one of five 'villages' represented in the Bardney Group Parish Council. The hamlet contains two Grade II

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late 18th-century brick farmhouses: Kingthorpe Farmhouse and Manor Farmhouse.

History

In the ''

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'' account Kingthorpe is written as "Chinetorp", in the Wraggoe

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of the

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. In 1086 it consisted of 10 villagers, 15 households, land for 1.9 ploughlands, with 1 lord's plough team and 1 men's plough team. There was of meadow and of woodland. In 1066

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was held by Bergthorr and Thorulf, being transferred to

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in 1086 with

Ivo Taillebois Ivo Taillebois (died 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman, sheriff and tenant-in-chief in 11th-century England. Life Ivo Taillebois was a Norman most probably from Taillebois, now a small hamlet in Saint-Gervais de Briouze, Calvados.K.S.B. Keat ...

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. ''The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey'' transcribed the ''Domesday'' entry as: "In Chinetorp (Kingthorpe(Wraggoe)] Bertoe and Thorald (Torul) had 7.5 bovates and the third part of half a bovate ssessedto the geld. There is arable land for twice as many teams and oxen. Odo, Ivo's man, has one team there in demesne, and 10 villeins with one team, and 15 acres of meadow, and 80 acres of woodland for pannage throughout the territory .. it was worth 50 shillings ; now 40 shillings." According to 19th- and 20th-century trade directories Kingthorpe is a centre for growing wheat, barley, and oats. There were two farmers in 1855, with Kingthorpe described as 'a farm'. The

lord of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as s ...

and principal landowner was T. T. Drake (1817-1888), son to the late Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake MP. At the time Kingthorpe Station on the Louth and Lincoln branch railway was extant but, according to ''Kelly's'', by 1933 it had disappeared. In 1933 there were four farmers.''

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of Lincolnshire'' 1855, p.11''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p.282''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, p.39 Kingthorpe railway station was on a line opened in 1876, and closed in 1956; there is no remaining evidence of the station which was situated east from the hamlet.

References

External links

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"Kingthorpe Apley"

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