Thurlby is a village and

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in the South Kesteven district of

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, England. It is situated just west of the

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, south from the town of Bourne, and on the edge of the Lincolnshire

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. It is sometimes referred to as ''Thurlby by Bourne'' to distinguish it from other villages in Lincolnshire with the same name. Thurlby and the hamlet of Northorpe to its north are conjoined. The parish had a population of 2,136 at the 2001 census and 2,153 at the 2011 census.

History

The Roman

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passes through the parish to the east of the road. The A15 road itself broadly follows the route of the Roman Road King street. The church of St Firmin dates back to before the Norman Conquest, reportedly to 925 AD. It has features of Saxo-Norman and

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style. Thurlby is mentioned in the 1086 '' Domesday'' survey as "Tvrolvebi", "Tvrodldbi", "Torulfbi" and "Turoluebi". A

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chapel, Trinity Methodist Church, was established in 1912. Thurlby railway station was on the Bourne and Essendine railway; it opened in 1860 and closed in 1951. The railway workers cottages 3 to 9 Station Road, built in 1866 are nearly the oldest properties in the village, they were famously hit by an air bus in the 1920s.

Geography

Geographically Thurlby is on the western edge of The Lincolnshire Fens, and Thurlby Fen, to the east of the A15, falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings

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. Thurlby lies between Bourne and Baston. Most of the village lies to the west of the

but a part, including the parish church, is to the east. The parish includes Northorpe, which is continuous with Thurlby, and the outlying hamlets of Obthorpe and Kate's Bridge. The

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of Thurlby shares the same boundaries as the civil parish.

Community

The ecclesiastical parish, with a single

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of St Firmin, is part of the Ness group of the Deanery of Aveland and Ness with Stamford. In 1979 local resident Harold Sneath bequeathed his home to the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) to use as

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p. 136.

Transport

The nearest airport to the village is

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, about an hour away by car, in the neighbouring county of Leicestershire, with regular flights across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The nearest railway stations are situated at either Stamford and Peterborough, with both hosting regular scheduled services to London King's Cross and

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, and Peterborough additionally connecting to other destinations throughout the UK, such as Norwich, Cambridge, Edinburgh, York, Newcastle, Lincoln, Nottingham and Doncaster.

Education

The village has a modern primary school sharing a site with the community hall and Lawrance Park. Thurlby Community Primary School usually has around 200 pupils and caters for children aged 4 to 11, with the majority of pupils progressing to either Bourne Grammar School or Bourne Academy. There is a pre-school is situated towards the A15 in Northorpe. UK Northorpe and Thurlby

Northorpe

Northorpe is a hamlet situated directly adjacent to the village of Thurlby. Northorpe is near to Elsea and Math Woods, the latter of which is rumoured to be haunted by Nanny Rutt.

Notes

References

* *John Morris, Domesday Book Lincolnshire, Phillimore, Chichester, 1986. .

External links

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Thurlby historical summary (UK & Ireland Genealogy page)Thurlby Village A History of the village of Thurlby and Northorpe and its People
{{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District