Milthorpe

Search off the beaten track for small surprises and you will be rewarded. Milthorpe is not even mentioned in most guides and gazetteers but can be found just off the main A15 at Aslackby and a two mile drive down a narrow country road will take you to it. 

This hamlet stretches down into the fen proper but is little more than a handful of cottages, built of stone as well as brick, although several residential developments are underway that will add to its size. This delightful house is called White Cottage and was built to commemorate the coronation of King George V and the monarch's initials and the date G R 1911 are remembered with a plaque on the front.

A bump in the road surface is the only clue left that from 2nd January 1872 until 22nd September 1930, passenger trains puffed up and down the single track line that linked Bourne with Sleaford. 

Milthorpe is sometimes spelled Millthorpe and in the 13th century it was known as Milnetorp which means the secondary settlement of a mill and so was presumably a community that was dependent on nearby Pointon. although no mill exists there today. Also, Milthorpe is one of the few places in Lincolnshire that has never had any place of worship.

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