| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.8222°N -0.438°W |
| Official Name: | Bulby |
| Static Image: | Entrance to village of Bulby - geograph.org.uk - 106124.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 240px |
| Static Image Caption: | Road through Bulby |
| Shire District: | South Kesteven |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Grantham and Stamford |
| Civil Parish: | Irnham, Bulby and Hawthorpe |
| Post Town: | Bourne |
| Postcode District: | PE10 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF053261 |
| London Distance Mi: | 90 |
| London Direction: | S |
Bulby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, and in the civil parish of Irnham, Bulby and Hawthorpe. The village is situated west of the A15, east of the A1, and approximately 4miles north-west from the town of Bourne.
In 1872 the two hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe were grouped as Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe forming the eastern side of Irnham parish, being a joint township with a population of 180 in 1767acres "of fertile land". About 1000acres of Bulby-cum-Hawthorpe land was purchased by Rev. William Watson Smith in about 1840, who built on it the Elizabethan-style Bulby House and grounds. By 1872, Bulby House and 1100acres of township land was owned by Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster (Lord Aveland), who was lord of the manor. 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".[1]
Bulby has close associations with farming, has a number of surrounding farms, and a plant nursery.
The River East Glen passes close to the west of the hamlet.[2] [3]
There is evidence of a previous Bulby Hall, and two Medieval settlements: Little Bulby and East Bulby.