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Etymology

Woolsthorpe means “an outlying farmstead or hamlet (Old Scandinavian ‘thorp’) of a man called Wulfstan (Old English person name)” Woolsthope means “outlying farm or hamlet of a man called Wulfstan” A Dictionary of British Place Names says the name means “Woolthhorpe”

Early history

Woolsthorpe is recorded in the 1086 Domesday account as “Ulestanestorp”, in the Kesteven Hundred of Winnibriggs and Threo. It comprised 29 households, 6 villagers, 3 smallholders and 8 freemen, with 4 ploughlands and 3 mills. In 1066 Leofric of Bottesford was Lord of the Manor, this transferred in 1086 to Robert of Tosny, who also became Tenant-in-chief. A possible deserted medieval village lies at the southern edge of the present village on the same site of a previous St James church destroyed in 1643 by Parliamentary forces.

19th century

In 1885 Kelly’s describes Woolsthorpe as situated on the River Devon, close to the borders of Leicestershire. It was in the wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo, the petty sessional division of Spittlegate, the union and county court district of South Grantham, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Lincoln. The nearest railway station was noted as 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away at Sedgebrook, on the Great Northern Railway line.

20th century

The village was designated a conservation area by South Kesteven Council in 1997. The village has been designated as an area of conservation by the council.

Woolsthorpe by Belvoir landmarks

Woolsthorpe Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to St James. It was built of ironstone in 1845–47 by G. G. Place, replacing an earlier 1793 church on the same site.

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