Great Sturton

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Great Sturton
Lincolnshire
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All Saints' Church, Great Sturton
Location
Grid reference: TF215767
Location: 53°16’24"N, 0°10’42"W
Data
Post town: Horncastle
Postcode: LN9
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Great Sturton is a hamlet in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is about seven miles from the nearest market town, Horncastle.

The hamlet has twelve houses and fewer than 40 residents. Neighbouring villages include Sotby, Baumber , Hatton and Ranby.

Despite its lack of size, Great Sturton has a parish church, All Saints,[1] which is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 11th century. It was restored in 1904 by T. J. Micklethwaite.[2]

Both a middle- and a late-Bronze Age spearhead have been found at Great Sturton.[3][4]

There are two deserted mediæval villages listed for Great Sturton; one was Sudstone,[5] the other the hamlet of Lowthorpe.[6]

Sturton Hall

The first Sturton Hall is a Grade II listed ruin. The house was deserted in 1810 when the Livesey family bought the manor and built a new Hall in Sturton Park.[7][8]

The Manor, with neighbouring Baumber, once belonged to Thomas Dighton whose daughter and Heiress married Edward Clinton, the second son of the first Earl of Lincoln, whose successors were the Dukes of Newcastle. These estates remained in the family until they were sold to Thomas Livesey of Blackburn, Lancashire.[8]

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