Thorpe on the Hill

• "The Thorpe Story" by Bill and Connie WILSON. It may be privately published. It has lots of history about the place and the people who lived there.

• The parish was in the South West sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
• In 1912 the whole of the church, with the exception of the tower, was pulled down and rebuilt on new foundations.
• The church is constructed of Weldon stone and has a barrel-style roof.
• The church seats 200.
• There is a photograph of St. Michael's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site.
• Richard CROFT has a pretty photograph of St. Michael's Church at night on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
• Here is a photo of St. Michael's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1695.
• The LFHS has published several indexes (marriage and burial) for the Graffoe Deanery to make your search easier.
• The John Hunt Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1909. Richard CROFT has a photograph of this Wesleyan church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
• The Free (or United) Methodists built their chapels here prior to 1930. To research these chapels, check our Non-Conformist Church Records page for additional resources.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the South West sub-district of the Lincoln Registration District.
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Thorpe on the Hill is both a village and a parish south-west of the city of Lincoln and 130 miles north of London. The parish is bordered on the west by Eagle parish and on the south by Haddington township in Aubourn parish.

If you are planning a visit:

• Watch for the village sign as photographed by Richard CROFT in 2008.
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thorpe on the Hill to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK908656 (Lat/Lon: 53.180167, -0.643387), Thorpe on the Hill which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The parish was in the ancient Graffoe Wapentake (or Boothby Graffoe) in the North Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
• For today's district governance, see the North Kesteven District Council.

• A charitable bequest distributed 32 shillings twice a year to the deserving poor.
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lincoln South petty session hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	190
1811	175
1821	235
1831	273
1841	342
1871	350
1891	322
1911	291

• There was a small National School here by 1900.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.