Dexthorpe

{{Short description|Deserted medieval village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Dexthorpe

| country= England

| region= East Midlands

| os_grid_reference= TF408715

| map_alt=

| label_position= bottom

| coordinates = {{coord|53.222692|0.108237|display=inline,title}}

| post_town= Spilsby

| postcode_area= PE

| postcode_district= PE23

| dial_code=

| constituency_westminster= Louth and Horncastle

| civil_parish= Dalby

| shire_district= East Lindsey

| shire_county= Lincolnshire

| london_distance_mi= 115

| london_direction= S

}}

Dexthorpe is a deserted medieval village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the parish of Dalby, and {{convert|3.5|mi|km|1}} north from Spilsby, {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} south-west from Ulceby, and {{convert|400|yd|m|0}} east from the A16 road.

Dexthorpe is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as part of the Candleshoe Hundred in the South Riding of Lindsey. It held 23 households, 8 villagers, 11 smallholders and 47 freemen, with 16 ploughlands, 2 churches and {{convert|80|acre|km2|1}} of meadow. In 1066 Earl Harold held the Lordship, which in 1086 was granted to Earl Hugh of Chester, who also became Tenant-in-chief.{{cite web|title=Dexthorpe|url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF4071/dexthorpe/|work=Domesday Map|publisher=Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull|accessdate=1 July 2011}} However, by 1577 it had declined and was recorded as having only a pasture, church and parsonage.{{cite PastScape|mnumber=355612|mname=Dexthorpe |accessdate=1 July 2011}}{{cite book|title=The Lost Villages of England|year=1954|publisher=Philosophical Library|id=DA 185, b49 1954b|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050310427;q1=Dexthorpe;start=1;size=25;page=search;seq=187;num=161|author=Beresford M. W.| authorlink = Maurice Beresford |accessdate=1 July 2011|page=161}}

In 1829, Edmund Oldfield wrote in his book A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet in the Wapentake of Candleshoe in the County of Lincoln, that "the inhabitants of Dexthorpe pay church rates to the incumbent of Well", and that the number of inhabitants in Dalby and Dexthorpe in 1801 were 50, in 1811 there were 71 and by 1821 had risen again to 99.{{cite book|title=A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet in the Wapentake of Candleshoe in the County of Lincoln.|year=1829|publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Greer|id=DA690 W12 04|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075906069;q1=Dexthorpe;start=1;size=25;page=search;seq=186;num=156|author=Oldfield, Edmund|page=156}} Today the church and village are visible as earthworks.[http://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=TF4080071500|TF408715|1&v=h "Dexthorpe: TF408715"]; Gridreferencefinder.com. Retrieved 24 April 2012