SAUSTHORPE, a parish, with a village, in Spilsby district, Lincoln; on the river Steeping, 2½ miles N W of Spilsby r. station. Post-town, Spilsby. Acres, 728. Real property, £1, 840. Pop., 144. Houses, 27. The manor, with New Hall, belongs to the Rev. F. Swan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £216. Patron, the Rev. F. Swan. The church was re-built in 1844; is in the early English style; and has acrocketted spire. There is a national school.

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