Thorpe St Peter
| Thorpe St Peter | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church, Thorpe St Peter | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF484606 |
| Location: | 53°7’22"N, 0°12’58"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 320 (2011) |
| Post town: | Skegness |
| Postcode: | PE24 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Boston and Skegness |
Thorpe St Peter is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, about a mile north-west of the town of Wainfleet.
Thorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 33 households, two mills and a church.[1]
The parish church, St Peter, is a Grade I listed building dating from 1200 with later additions and alterations, and restored in the 19th century. It is built of greenstone and limestone. The west tower dates from the mid-14th century, and there is an early 13th-century font.[2]
Thorpe Culvert railway station was opened here in 1873.[3]
Sport
Thorpe St Peter is home to the Wainfleet & District Sporting Motorcycle Club. It hosts Motorcycle Grasstrack Racings International Lincolnshire Poacher and in 2011 held the European Grasstrack Championship Final.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Thorpe St Peter) |
References
- ↑ St Peter Thorpe St Peter in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1223796: Church of St Peter, Thorpe St Peter (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 507093 – Thorpe Culvert railway station
