THURLBY, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Bourn district, Lincoln; on the Bourn railway, 2½ miles S of Bourn. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Bourn. Acres, 5,070. Real property, £7,289. Pop., 833. Houses, 177. The property is much subdivided. Bricks are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £553.* Patron, Eton College. The church is Norman, cruciform, and good, with fine tower and spire. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £5.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))