Population 1,374 (2011) Region East Midlands Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Tuesday 3:51 AM District South Kesteven Civil parish Frieston | OS grid reference SK939479 Country England Post town GRANTHAM Shire county Lincolnshire Dialling code 01400 | |
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Weather 2°C, Wind W at 19 km/h, 92% Humidity UK parliament constituency Sleaford and North Hykeham | ||
Caythorpe is a large village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 1,374. It is situated on the A607, approximately 3 miles (5 km) south from Leadenham and 8 miles (13 km) north from Grantham. Caythorpe Heath stretches east of the village to Ermine Street and Byards Leap.
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Map of Caythorpe, Grantham, UK
Village
Caythorpe Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Vincent. The church has a wide double nave divided by Geometric (early Decorated) piers. The central tower supports a crocketed spire rising to 156 feet. Within the church are monuments to the Hussey family, dated 1698 and 1725, and over the tower arch are remains of paintings of the Last Judgment, The churchyard cross, restored in 1906, is a scheduled ancient monument.
Grade II* listed Caythorpe Hall lies on the northern edge of the village; it was built between 1824 and 1827 in the classical style. The park wall is all that remains of the earlier house, the seat of the Hussey family.
The Red Lion and the Waggon and Horses are the two village public houses.
There was once a Caythorpe railway station on the line between Grantham and Lincoln.
Mensa International has had its registered office in the village since 2008.
Agricultural college
Caythorpe Court, to the east of the village, was built as a hunting lodge, used in the Second World War as an auxiliary hospital and from 1946 it was Kesteven Agricultural College – the only college of its type in south-west Lincolnshire, recognised nationally for its excellence in agricultural engineering. In 1980 it became part of Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, and in 1994 was taken over by De Montfort University. When Riseholme Agricultural College, also part of De Montfort, was adopted by the new University of Lincoln in 2001, Caythorpe was subsumed into Lincoln as the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture. The school closed in September 2002, after which the building became a PGL activity centre.
Notable people
Edmund Weaver, 18th-century astronomer and land agent, lived at Frieston. He was buried at St Vincent's Church, where his memorial is placed in the south chancel. George Hussey Packe (1796–1874), MP for the Southern Division of the County of Lincolnshire and Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, built and lived at Caythorpe Hall and provided the village school and patronage for St Vincent's Church.