Scottlethorpe
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Scottlethorpe is a village in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 situated about three miles north-west of Bourne
Bourne, Lincolnshire
Bourne is a market town and civil parish on the western edge of the Fens, in the District of South Kesteven in southern Lincolnshire, England.-The town:...

 on the A151
A151 road
The A151 road is relatively minor part of the British road system. It lies entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Its western end lies at coordinates otherwise, 1...

, within the parish of Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe. The land hereabouts is all part of the Grimsthorpe
Grimsthorpe
Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England situated about north-west of Bourne on the A151. It falls within the parish of Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe.Nearby is Grimsthorpe Castle....

 estate.

The modern settlement is a series of cottages and a small terrace of houses strung out along Scottlethorpe Lane between the modern village of Edenham and the site of the medieval chapel.

Mentioned twice in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 as Scachethorp within the Beltisloe
Beltisloe
Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln England, and a former Wapentake.The Wapentake of Beltisloe, was an old administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire. In England a wapentake was the division of a shire for administrative, military and judicial purposes under the...

 Wapentake Robert of Tosny. had 1.3 ploughland and Guy of Craon an acre of meadow and another of woodland. There were 3 households.

There were several medieval chapels in the area, and Scottlethorpe has substantial remains now used as part of a barn. There are conflicting theories about how large the original monastic settlement, if indeed there was one, was and what might have been re-located from Vaudey Abbey
Vaudey Abbey
Vaudey Abbey was an English Cistercian abbey. It was founded in 1147 by William, Count of Aumale, Earl of York. Its site is within the Grimsthorpe Castle park, in Lincolnshire, 6 km northwest of Bourne on the A151, but there are no remains of the Abbey aside from earthworks.The Victoria County...

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