Sturton by Stow

Sturton by Stow is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,369 at the 2011 census.[1]

Sturton by Stow

St Hugh's Church, Sturton by Stow
Sturton by Stow
Location within Lincolnshire
Population1,369 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK890806
• London125 mi (201 km) S
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLincoln
Postcode districtLN1
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

The village is situated on the north-south B1241 and east-west A1500 Tillbridge Road (a Roman road). Nearby to the north is Stow. Sturton falls within the ecclesiastical parish of Stow, consequently the parish church of Sturton is Stow Minster. The Church of England maintains a mission church in Sturton, a brick building dedicated to St Hugh and designed by John Loughborough Pearson.

The Sturton by Stow Secondary Modern School closed in the 1980s. There is a primary school on School Lane. The village public house is the Plough Inn on Tillbridge Road. The River Till is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east.

References
  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 May 2016.

Further reading

Crust, Linda (c. 1989). The Fiery Proprietory of Sturton by Stow: the lives of the small farmers of a Lincolnshire village and the world in which they lived in the nineteenth century. Sudbrooke, Lincs. p. 45. ISBN 1-872413-30-7.


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