Stragglethorpe

Stragglethorpe is a village in the civil parish of Brant Broughton with Stragglethorpe, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated approximately east of Newark-on-Trent. These figures refer to the population of Brant Broughton and Stragglethorpe combined. However, slips of paper can be found in the Stragglethorpe churchwardens' accounts for 1801, 1811 and 1821, which record the population as 79, 92 and 100 respectively while denoting the number of inhabited houses and families as 14/17, 16/16 and 18/19. In 1921 the parish had a population of 86. On 1 April 1931 the parish was abolished and merged with Brant Broughton to form "Brant Broughton with Stragglethorpe".

Before 1931, Stragglethorpe had been associated with the land and villages to the West of it, namely Beckingham, Sutton and Fenton. In fact, a thousand years before, it had been an outlying hamlet to the village of Holme. The Saxon "thorpe" part of its name denotes this fact; confusingly, Holme Manor and buildings were just to the south of Sutton and were abandoned many centuries ago; the earth mounds and ramparts were levelled by the landowner in the early 1970s. It seems to be widely accepted by recent historians, but not proved, that the other church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the heading of Holme was in fact that belonging to Stragglethorpe. The expression "Stragglethorpe in the parish of Beckingham" is used repeatedly in the title of the Bishops' Transcripts during the late 16th and 17th centuries; these can be found in the Lincoln Archives.