Thorganby, Lincolnshire Explained

Static Image Name:All Saints, Thorganby - geograph.org.uk - 105728.jpg
Static Image Caption:All Saints' Church, Thorganby
Country:England
Official Name:Thorganby
Coordinates:53.4614°N -0.1803°W
Shire District:West Lindsey
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Gainsborough
Post Town:GRIMSBY
Postcode District:DN37
Postcode Area:DN
Os Grid Reference:TF209976
London Distance Mi:140
London Direction:S

Thorganby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. England. It is situated approximately 9miles north-east from the town of Market Rasen in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The population is included in the civil parish of Swinhope.

The parish church is a Grade II listed building dedicated to All Saints. Built using ironstone, limestone and red brick, It dates from the 13th century although it was almost completely rebuilt in 1900. It retains its 13th-century font.

Thorganby Hall is a Grade II listed small country house, built of limestone and red brick in 1648 with early 19th-century additions. It was built to replace an earlier Hall which was the seat of the Willoughby family, plundered by the Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1643.

Thorganby C of E School was built in 1868 as a National School. It closed in March 1959.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thorganby CE School. Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. 16 August 2011.