__NOTOC__ Hawthorpe is a hamlet 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. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

district of

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, England, and the

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of Irnham, Bulby and Hawthorpe. It is west from the A15, east from the A1, and north-west from the town of Bourne. Hawthorpe from the South - geograph

Hawthorpe is mentioned in the ''

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'' as "Awartorp", in the

Beltisloe Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln in England, and a former Wapentake. The Wapentake of Beltisloe was established as an ancient administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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Kesteven The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England. This division had long had a separate county administration (quarter sessions), along with the two other Parts of Lincolnshire, Lindsey and Holland. Etymology T ...

. It comprised 2 households, 2 villagers and 4 freemen, with 2.9 ploughlands, a meadow of and woodland of . In 1066 the Lord was Healfdene; after 1086

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was given to Alfred of Lincoln. In the 1872 '' White's Directory'' the two hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe were grouped as Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe forming the eastern side of Irnham parish, being a joint

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with a population of 180 in "of fertile land". About of Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe land was purchased by Rev. William Watson Smith in about 1840, who built on it the

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-style Bulby House and grounds. By 1872, Bulby House and of township land was owned by

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, (born Heathcote 1 October 1830 – 24 December 1910), known as Lord Aveland from 1867 to 1888 and as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1888 to 1892, was a British Liberal politic ...

(Lord Aveland), who was

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. A moated area evident at the time was said to be the site of Bulby Hall which is "supposed to have been burnt down in the Barons' wars". In the 1885 ''

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'' Hawthorpe is written as having an 1881 population of 70, and as a joint township with the hamlet of Bulby for the support of the poor. Hawthorpe belonged principally to Lord Aveland, who lived at Bulby House.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 496 Listed buildings in the hamlet centre on Hawthorpe Farm, including a 17th-century farmhouse, 19th-century cottages, and 17th- to 19th-century barns and stables, all

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