| Static Image Name: | St.Hugh's church, Sturton by Stow, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 89191.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St Hugh's Church, Sturton by Stow |
| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Sturton by Stow |
| Coordinates: | 53.3149°N -0.6655°W |
| Population: | 1,369 |
| Population Ref: | (2011) |
| Shire District: | West Lindsey |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Gainsborough |
| Post Town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode District: | LN1 |
| Postcode Area: | LN |
| Os Grid Reference: | SK890806 |
| London Distance Mi: | 125 |
| London Direction: | S |
Sturton by Stow is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,369 at the 2011 census.[1]
The village is situated on the north-south B1241 and east–west A1500 Tillbridge Road (a Roman road). Nearby to the north is Stow. Sturton falls within the ecclesiastical parish of Stow, consequently the parish church of Sturton is Stow Minster. The Church of England maintained a mission church in Sturton, a brick building dedicated to St Hugh and designed by John Loughborough Pearson. The building was sold in January 2022 and is now in private ownership. The nearest churches are now Stow Minster, St Botolph's Church, Saxilby and St. Margaret of Antioch Church in Marton.
The Sturton by Stow Secondary Modern School closed in the 1980s. There is a primary school on School Lane. The village public house is the Plough Inn on Tillbridge Road. The River Till is 1miles to the east.
Book: Crust, Linda . The Fiery Proprietory of Sturton by Stow: the lives of the small farmers of a Lincolnshire village and the world in which they lived in the nineteenth century . c. 1989 . Sudbrooke, Lincs . 1-872413-30-7 . 45.