Static Image Name: | Manor Farm, Sturton - geograph.org.uk - 327472.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Manor Farm, Sturton |
Country: | England |
Official Name: | Sturton |
Coordinates: | 53.5287°N -0.5401°W |
Shire District: | North Lincolnshire |
Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Gainsborough |
Post Town: | BRIGG |
Postcode District: | DN20 |
Postcode Area: | DN |
Os Grid Reference: | SE970049 |
London Distance Mi: | 140 |
London Direction: | S |
Sturton is a village in the civil parish of Scawby, North Lincolnshire, England. It lies 2.5miles south-west from Brigg, 0.5miles south from Scawby, to which it is conjoined, and 1miles south from the M180 on the B1207.
During the 19th century Kelly's Directory noted that Sturton was a hamlet in the parish of Scawby-cum-Sturton, which also included the hamlet of Scawby Brook, 1.5miles to the north-east. The railway station for Sturton and Scawby on the Gainsborough to Brigg line lies within Sturton, 0.75miles to the south.[1] The station and line was part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
Sturton has three Grade II listed farmhouses: c.1849 Station Farmhouse, late 18th-century Home Farmhouse,[2] and late 18th-century Manor Farmhouse.