Sausthorpe, Lincolnshire

Description
Sausthorpe, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Steeping, 2 1/2 miles NW of Spilsby station on a branch of the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Spilsby; money order and telegraph office, Partney. Acreage, 748; population, 148. The manor, with Sausthorpe Hall, a modern mansion standing in a park of 30 acres, belongs to the Swan family. The living is a rectory, consolidated in 1882 with that of Aswardby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £345. The church, rebuilt in 1844, is a building of brick in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower with a crocketed spire. It was restored in 1891. Population of the united ecclesiastical parishes, 237.