NORTHORPE, a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln; on the river Eau, and on the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 2 miles W S W of Kirton-in-Lindsey. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Kirton-in-Lindsey. Acres, 1,816. Real property, £2, 651. Pop., 194. Houses, 41. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to T. Fox, Esq. Northorpe Hall is the residence of Mrs. Ashton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £80. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is good; and there is a national school.

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