Kingthorpe is a hamlet in the
West Lindsey
West Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gainsborough, the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Caistor and M ...
district of
Lincolnshire
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, England. The hamlet is in the
civil parish
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of
Apley, and is east from the city of
Lincoln
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and south from the
market town
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of
Market Rasen
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. It sits on the
B1202 road from
Wragby
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to
Bardney
Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 (including Southrey) at the 2011 census. The village sits on the e ...
, 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
listed late 18th-century brick farmhouses: Kingthorpe Farmhouse and Manor Farmhouse.
History

In the ''
Domesday
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'' account Kingthorpe is written as "Chinetorp", in the Wraggoe
Hundred
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In mathematics
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of the
South Riding of Lindsey
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Etymology
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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
lordship of the manor was held by Bergthorr and Thorulf, being transferred to
Odo 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. Ke ...
as
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 ...
. ''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
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and principal landowner was T. T. Drake (1817-1888), son to the late
Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake
Captain (armed forces), Captain Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (10 March 1783 – 21 March 1852) was a British Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Amersham (UK Parliament constituency), Amersham from 1805 to 1832.
Person ...
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.
['']Kelly's Directory
Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in Britain that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses ...
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" Genuki GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphas ...
, Retrieved 19 March 2016
Bardney Group Parish Council
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Hamlets in Lincolnshire
West Lindsey District
Bardney