Manthorpe is a small village in the
South Kesteven district
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of
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...
, England. It lies east from the
A6121, south-west from
Bourne and north-east from
Stamford.
The village is part of the
Toft with Lound and Manthorpe civil parish
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. At the western side of the village runs the
East Glen River.
At Bowthorpe Park Farm is the
Bowthorpe Oak, with the largest girth in the UK. The tree has a circumference of about .
References
External links
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"The Bowthorpe Oak" Homepages.which.net
Villages in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District
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