Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 4,344, in 1743 households, increasing to a population of 5,133 at the 2011 census. It includes the village of

Londonthorpe Londonthorpe is a village to the east of Grantham, in the civil parish of Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without, in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies to the north-east from Grantham, to the west from the B6403 (Ermine ...

and the hamlet of Harrowby, Lincolnshire. Radio mast - geograph

Deer on the 8th at Belton Park Golf Club in its Centenary Year - geograph

Alma Park Road heading north (geograph 3076022)

Drifting snow on Whalebone Lane (geograph 3382319)

Originally a township of Grantham, Harrowby was created a civil parish in 1866, and in 1894 it was split into two separate civil parishes, Harrowby Within, and Harrowby Without. In 1909 Harrowby Within was abolished and merged with the town of Grantham. In October 1930 Harrowby Without was reduced in size to enlarge the town, and in 1931 the parish was abolished and merged with Londonthorpe and Spittlegate Without to create Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without civil parish.

Geography

The parish is bounded on the east by the

High Dyke High Dyke is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the north of Middleton-in-Teesdale Middleton-in-Teesdale is a market town in County Durham, in England. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale betw ...

(

Ermine Street Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London (''Londinium'') to Lincoln (''Lindum Colonia'') and York (''Eboracum''). The Old English name was ''Earninga Strǣt'' (1012), named after a tribe called the ''Earningas'', ...

), the modern B6403 road. The Southern boundary follows traditional field lines from near ''Griffs Plantation'' westwards to cross the

River Witham The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riversid ...

at just north of Saltersford. The parish includes a small amount of land on the West bank of the Witham. The western boundary from here crosses the industrial works of Aveling Barford, and Somerby Hill, and encloses roughly half of ''Halls Hill'' (west of Harrowby Hall) (see ). It then continues its winding progress North and west where it divides Harrowby Within from Harrowby Without (although modern building has negated the point of the separation) meeting the Witham again at and following it until just south of Belton House at , and encloses a significant part of Belton Park and the golf course. The Northern boundary crosses Belton Park just south of the ride called ''Bellmont Avenue'', skirting south of the folly at Bellmont Tower, and then follows an estate road eastwards to close the border on the High Dyke just north of ''Pywipe Cottages'' at . The parish boundary thus encloses the

Prince William of Gloucester Barracks Prince William of Gloucester Barracks is a military installation near Grantham in Lincolnshire. History The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Spitalgate airbase, in October 1976, as the new Central Volunteer Headquarters f ...

of the Territorial Army, once known as , the at Cold Harbour, the , the and the at Belton as well as the various farms and houses one would expect. The parish is crossed east–west by the main

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and generally by several minor roads to the villages and to the Alma Park industrial estate. Land in the parish is gently undulating, particularly around Belton Park and the south-eastern corner near Little Ponton. The area of Belton Park bordered by the Witham is around 50M altitude, and the land generally rises toward the east. Around the High Dyke it is flatter, and around 120M above sea level. The bedrock of the Eastern Londonthorpe Parish and the High Dyke is Upper

Lincolnshire limestone The Lincolnshire Limestone Formation is a geological formation in England, part of the Inferior Oolite Group of the (Bajocian) Middle Jurassic strata of eastern England. It was formed around 165 million years ago, in a shallow, warm sea on the ma ...

. To the west, on in Belton park and around Alma Park the ground is formed of Mudstones, of the Whitby type, or the Charmouth formation further to the west. This western end of Belton Park, over the Charmouth mudstones, carries a superficial post-glacial deposit known as the Belton Sand And Gravel. The valley of the Witham includes its own alluvial deposits of clay, silt and Gravel.zoom to the location, and click to identify the strata

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