THORPE-ON-THE-HILL, a parish, with a r. station, in the district and county of Lincoln; on the Lincoln and Newark railway, 6 miles SW of Lincoln. Post town, Lincoln. Acres, 1,820. Real property, £2,658. Pop., 427. Houses, 82. The property is divided among a few. There are mineral springs. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £260. Patrons, The Dean and Chapter of L. The church is plain. There are two Wesleyan chapels and a national school.

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