Manthorpe is a village in the South Kesteven

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, England. It is on the northern edge of the town of

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

and on the Grantham to

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, between the East Coast Main Line and the

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. The village is part of the

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of Belton and Manthorpe.

History

Before the 19th century, Manthorpe parish was agricultural and known as Little Gonerby-cum-Manthorpe. The Grantham to Lincoln road followed what is now Low Road, across the river behind Swallow's Mill, through Belton Park and along the old route to the

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town of Ancaster on the

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Roman Road. In 1810 the

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, owners of Belton Park and House just north of Manthorpe, built a new road from Grantham to Belton. In the 1840s and 1850s new houses, a church and school were built, and established properties were renovated. The Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist was designed by architect George Gordon Place of

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and built in 1847–48. It was built as an estate church by the Brownlow family to serve Belton Estate workers. The 1885 ''

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'' describes Manthorpe as "a small and pleasant village". It was an ecclesiastical district established in 1849 from the civil parish of Grantham and the village formed a

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with Little Gonerby. It was within the Grantham parliamentary borough, the rural deanery of North Grantham, and the archdeaconry and Diocese of Lincoln. Manthorpe's church of St John the Evangelist, consecrated by the

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in 1848, is in early Decorated style. It consists of a

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, south

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, and

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, and a

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with two bells and a

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high. The church, graveyard and parsonage sites were provided by Earl Brownlow, who also paid for construction of the parsonage. The earl's brother, Richard Cust, St John's

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in 1885, built the church at his own expense.

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s from the brothers provided the

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– a vicarage united with that of

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. The

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dates from 1849, but earlier records for Manthorpe appear in Grantham registers.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 571. ''Kelly's'' describes the area as being skirted on the north by a formation of

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, and on the south by oolite, with land being of sand with a gravel subsoil. Chief crops grown were wheat, barley, oats and turnips, in a township area of that included Little Gonerby. In 1881 the ecclesiastical district contained a population of 243, and the Manthorpe-cum-Little Gonerby township, 3,567. An infants school for 50 children, with an average attendance of 30, was erected in 1865 with financial support from Earl Brownlow. Township occupations included four farmers, two cow-keepers, a grazier, a

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, three shopkeepers, and a miller at Manthorpe Mill, a

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. In the early 20th century, houses began to be connected to electricity, with others supplied with water by a village pump or their own well. Eventually the Brownlow estate connected water and electricity to all households. By the late 1940s there were about a dozen houses west of Manthorpe Road, with the village still separated from Grantham. During the 1950s and 1960s houses were built west of Manthorpe Road and on the side of the

. In the 1960s Grantham became conjoined to the village after the Manthorpe housing estate was built on the north side of the town. When the 6th Lord Brownlow died, in 1978, further land became available and most cottages in Manthorpe village were sold.

Community

The nearest schools are situated on the Manthorpe estate in Grantham. These are

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, (formerly the

Central Technology & Sports College Central Technology & Sports College was a secondary school in the north of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. It became part of The Priory Ruskin Academy in 2010. History The Central School has its origins in the Central and Day Continuation ...

), a mixed-sex secondary school on Rushcliffe Road, and Cliffedale

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on Northcliffe Road. The

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is the benefice of Grantham Manthorpe, of the Deanery of Grantham. The Vicar of Manthorpe since 2014 is Fr Stuart Cradduck, who is also the Rector of St Wulfram's, Grantham. The nearest shop is a convenience store on the corner of Sandcliffe Road and Rushcliffe Road, on the Manthorpe estate. The closest supermarkets are in Grantham. Manthorpe has its own Residents' Association.https://www.hotfrog.co.uk/company/1096950376136704

References

External links

Priory Ruskin AcademyCliffedale Primary School
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