| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.794°N -0.4461°W |
| Map Type: | Lincolnshire |
| Official Name: | Grimsthorpe |
| Civil Parish: | Edenham |
| Shire District: | South Kesteven |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Grantham and Stamford |
| Post Town: | BOURNE |
| Postcode District: | PE10 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Dial Code: | 01778 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF048229 |
| London Distance Mi: | 90 |
| London Direction: | S |
Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A151 road, and 3miles north-west from Bourne. Grimsthorpe falls within the civil parish of Edenham, which is governed by Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe Parish Council.[1]
Grimsthorpe Castle is 500yd to the west.[2]
John Marius Wilson's 1870 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grimsthorpe as:
a hamlet in Edenham parish, Lincoln; on the river Glen, 1½ mile W of Edenham village. Pop., 135. Grimsthorpe Park was the seat once of the Duke of Ancaster, afterwards of Lord Gwyder; is now the seat of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby; was built partly in the time of Henry III., but principally by the Duke of Suffolk, to entertain Henry VIII.; is a large, irregular, but magnificent structure; and stands in an ornate park, about 16 miles in circuit. A Cistertian abbey, founded about 1451, by the Earl of Albemarle, and called Vallis Dei, or, vulgarly, Vaudy, formerly stood in the park, about a mile from the castle.[3][4] Vaudey Abbey was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1147, dissolved in 1536. The Abbey and its commercial quarries became part of Grimsthorpe Park.[5] The park itself is mentioned in the Domesday Book.[6]
The majority of employment in the village is in agriculture, at Grimsthorpe Castle, or at the Black Horse public house.