The name
Referred to as Aletorp in the Doomsday Book Althorpe is believed to mean 'Outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Ali or Alli'. Cameron also suggests that the name could mean 'Ali's secondary settlement' referring to nearby Keadby.
More information can be found in:
- Cameron, Keith. The Place-Names of Lincolnshire.
- Eminson T.B.F. Place and River Names of the West Riding of Lindsey Lincolnshire.
- Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.
The place
Althorpe is located close to Keadby on the side of the River Trent. Sir John Neville built the parish church of St Oswald, which was made redundant in 1980, in 1483. During restoration work in the late 1860s the bench of the sedilia had several coats of whitewash removed and a small brass portrait of William de Lound, a 14th century rector, was revealed.
Population history
| Year |
Population |
|
1801 |
208 |
|
1811 |
195 |
|
1821 |
252 |
|
1831 |
313 |
|
1841 |
366 |
|
1851 |
335 |
|
1861 |
391 |
|
1871 |
458 |
|
1881 |
527 |
|
1891 |
467 |
|
1901 |
539 |
|
1911 |
643 |
|
1921 |
689 |
|
1931 |
675 |
|
1941 |
N/A |
|
1951 |
1694 |
|
1961 |
2001 |
|
1971 |
2715 |
|
1981 |
1721 |
|
1991 |
1733 |
Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
ALTHORPE is a parish and village on the west bank of the Trent, with a station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central Railway, 5 ½ miles east-south-east from Crowle, 16 miles north from Gainsborough, 12 north-west from Brigg and 174 ½ from London. The parish comprises the townships of Althorpe & Keadby, and hamlet of Derrythorpe, in the Isle of Axholme, and is in the West Lindsey division of the county, West division of the wapentake of Manley, Epworth petty sessional division, union and county court district of Thorne, parts of Lindsey, rural deanery of Axholme, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Oswald, erected in 1483, by Sir John Neville kt. of Althorpe, is a fine building of ashlar, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower of three stages, with pinnacles and containing 3 bells; on the western face of the tower are the arms of Neville; quartering those of Newmarch and Mowbray: there are three sedilia, consisting of crocketed ogee arches, divided by pinnacled buttresses and surmounted by an embattled cresting: at the restoration in 1868 the bench of the sedilia was found to consist of a fine slab of dark marble, into which was inseted a little half-length effigy of a priest vested in a chasuble of the wide flowing kind used in the middle ages, the collar richly diapered with a four-leaved ornament and the hands raised in prayer; the inscription is as follows:-" Hic Jacet Will's de Lound, quondam clericus cancellarie d'ni Regis, cui a'I'e p'pciet' deus;" this encumbent was presented to the rectory by Joseph Panely [1], prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, in 1355: the choir seats were presented by Miss Skipworth: the nave was reseated in 1868 and a new organ was erected in 1890: there are 250 sittings. The registers date from the year 1670, and include the register of Amcotts previous to 1836. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £270, including 24 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the crown, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Herbert Edward Trotter M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Weslyan chapel was built in 1864, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Derrythorpe, built in1863. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers pass the village daily, stopping at Burringham and Keadby. The river Trent is crossed by means of ferryboats. Miss Skipworth, who is lady of the manor, Thomas Wilkinson Esq. of Upperwood Hall, Darfield, Yorks. and W. Stephenson Esq. is the principal landowners. The soil is warp; subsoil, peat. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area of the township is 1,329 acres of land, 23 of water 59 of tidal water and 13 of foreshore; rateable value, £2378; the population in 1891 was 467.
DERRYTHORPE is a hamlet three-quarters of a mile south. AMCOTTS, formerly part of this parish, is now a separate parish. KEADBY a township in this parish will be found under a separate heading.
[1] The prior of St John is listed as John Pavely, according to J.S. Cockburn, H.P.F. King, K.G.T. McDonnell (eds). 1969, 'Religious Houses: House of Knights Hospitallers', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Victoria County History.
Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library
- Stonehouse. The History & Topography of the Isle of Axholme. 1839. pp364 - 376.
- Read's History of the Isle of Axholme: its manors and parishes. 1858. pp169 - 379.
References in the Star Newspaper Index
- William Stephenson Memorial Hall opened LLS 16.04.1904 5c.
- "Old English Fair & Pageant" held SFS 27.06. 1931 9e.
- Farm Fire - Dutch Barn burnt out SFS 23.10. 1937 7c4.
- Althorpe Council School - 1st Annual Sports Day SFS 01.08. 1936 9d.
Related websites
- Althorpe (Isle of Axholme Family History Society).