Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire
| Wilsthorpe | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Faith's Church, Wilsthorpe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF091138 |
| Location: | 52°42’41"N, 0°23’11"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Stamford |
| Postcode: | PE9 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Grantham and Stamford |
Wilsthorpe is a little village in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, about six miles north-east of Stamford and four miles south of Bourne.
A possible Roman villa has been located as cropmarks to the south-east of the village,[1] and King Street is a Roman road.[2]
The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, which records it as having 20 households, 40 acres of meadow, 12 acres of woodland, and two mills.[3]
The church, St Faith's, was built in 1715, it was restored and altered by James Fowler of Louth in 1869. It is a Grade II* listed building. In the sanctuary is a late-13th-century effigy of a knight in chain mail;[4] perhaps a member of the Wake family.
To the west of the village is the site of a former railway station, Braceborough Spa Halt, which was on the Essendine and Bourne Railway line. It opened in 1860 and closed in 1951. The old station house is now a private house.[5]
Nearby is the pumping station house from the old Peterborough Waterworks with its artesian well 52 feet deep, drilled during the late 19th century. At that time the well provided a million gallons of water each day to supply Peterborough 14 miles away.
Literature
Wilsthorpe appears as a real world location in Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance a short ghost story by M.R. James first published in More Ghost Stories in 1911
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References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 348304 – Wilsthorpe Roman Villa
- ↑ Roman coins and possible Roman station, Braceborough and Wilsthorpe: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1062675: St Faiths, Wilsthorpe (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 506986 – Braceborough Spa Halt