Static Image Name: | St Peter, Thorpe St Peter - geograph.org.uk - 446447.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Peter's Church, Thorpe St Peter |
Country: | England |
Official Name: | Thorpe St Peter |
Coordinates: | 53.1228°N 0.2162°W |
Label Position: | bottom |
Population: | 320 |
Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
Shire District: | East Lindsey |
Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Boston and Skegness |
Post Town: | Skegness |
Postcode District: | PE24 |
Postcode Area: | PE |
Os Grid Reference: | TF484606 |
London Distance Mi: | 115 |
London Direction: | S |
Thorpe St Peter is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 1miles north-west from the town of Wainfleet.
Thorpe is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 33 households, two mills and a church.
The parish church, dedicated to Saint Peter is a Grade I listed building dating from 1200 with later additions and alterations, and restored in the 19th century. It is built of greenstone and limestone. The west tower dates from the mid-14th century, and there is an early 13th-century font.
Thorpe Culvert railway station was opened here in 1873.[2]
Thorpe St Peter is home to the Wainfleet & District Sporting Motorcycle Club. It hosts Motorcycle Grasstrack Racings International Lincolnshire Poacher and in 2011 held the European Grasstrack Championship Final.