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Thorpe on the Hill is a small village and civil parish in the North Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north from the A46 road, and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Lincoln city centre. In the 2001 UK census the parish population was 530. In the 19th century the population was 175 in 1811, gradually increased to 350 in 1881 and then dropped back again as the century turned. The parish is bordered on the west by Eagle parish and on the south by Haddington township in Aubourn parish. In addition to the Anglican church dedicated to St. Michael there was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1909 and an earlier Free Methodist chapel. (Source: GENUKI) In 1931 the neighbouring parish of Morton was absorbed into the parish, but there was no name-change. [edit] Research TipsLincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason. There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list. From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland, Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey. These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.
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