Theddlethorpe St Helen
{{Short description|Village in Lincolnshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| shire_district = East Lindsey
| shire_county = Lincolnshire
| coordinates = {{coord|53.377399|0.214610|display=inline,title}}
| population = 525
| population_ref = (2011 census)
| area_total_km2 = 9.31
| static_image = St Helen's Church, Theddlethorpe St. Helen - geograph.org.uk - 214940.jpg
| static_image_caption = St Helen's Church
| region = East Midlands
| constituency_westminster = Louth and Horncastle
| post_town = MABLETHORPE
| postcode_district = LN12
| postcode_area = LN
| dial_code = 01507
| os_grid_reference = TF474890
| london_distance_mi = 135
| london_direction = S
| website = http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Theddlethorpe/
}}
Theddlethorpe St Helen or East Theddlethorpe{{Cite web |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Theddlethorpe#Description |title=Theddlethorpe |publisher=GENUKI |accessdate=6 December 2020}} is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies about {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} north of Mablethorpe on the North Sea coast. Some seashore belongs to Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve, consisting of sea dunes and saltwater and freshwater marshes. It is one of five UK locations where the natterjack toad is found.[http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T54598A11160828.en. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T54598A86640094.] In 2011 the parish had a population of 525.{{Cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/admin/east_lindsey/E04005742__theddlethorpe_st_helen/ |title=Theddlethorpe St Helen |publisher=City Population De. |accessdate=6 December 2020}} The parish touches Gayton le Marsh, Mablethorpe and Sutton, Theddlethorpe All Saints and Withern with Stain.{{Cite web |url=http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/7000000000005334 |title=Theddlethorpe St. Helen|publisher=Ordnance Survey |accessdate=6 December 2020}} Theddlethorpe St Helen shares a parish council with Theddlethorpe All Saints.{{Cite web |url=http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Theddlethorpe/ |title=Home |publisher=Theddlethorpe Parish Council |accessdate=6 December 2020}}
The Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal processed natural gas from the North Sea until it closed in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/179209/conocophillips-hands-in-southern-north-sea-decommissioning-plans/|title=ConocoPhillips ends SNS production|date=16 August 2018|access-date=21 August 2018}}
History
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Theddlethorpe appears as Tedlagestorp, believed to mean "outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Theodlac".{{Cite book |last1=Mills |first1=David |title=A dictionary of British place-names |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199609086 |page=455 |edition=Revised |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXucAQAAQBAJ&q=%22Theddlethorpe%22&pg=PA455 |access-date=24 July 2020}}{{Cite web |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Lincolnshire/Theddlethorpe%20All%20Saints%20ans%20St.%20Helen |title=Theddlethorpe All Saints {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|ans}} St. Helen Key to English Place-names |publisher=The University of Nottingham |accessdate=6 December 2020}}
This village and parish is in Louth district, {{convert|9|mi|km|0}} east of Louth itself.{{Cite web|title=Theddlethorpe St Helen |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=13932&st=THEDDLETHORPE |work=Vision of Britain |publisher=University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 August 2011}} It had a population according to the 2001 census of 595,{{Cite web |title=Theddlethorpe St Helen |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=796270&c=LN12+1NP&d=16&e=15&g=467519&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1313360384780&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=14 August 2011}} reducing to 525 at the 2011 Census.{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129530&c=LN12+1NJ&d=16&e=62&g=6446226&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1440240548814&enc=1 |title=Theddlethorpe St Helen population 2011 |access-date=22 August 2015}}
File:St. Helen's Church, Theddlethorpe - geograph.org.uk - 549333.jpg
The parish church is a Grade II* listed building dedicated to St Helen, dating from the 14th–15th centuries. The chancel and aisles were rebuilt by Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1866. The church is of greenstone and limestone, with a 15th-century tower, a 14th-century font, and a 19th/20th-century interior.{{NHLE |num=1147259 |desc=The Church of St Helen, Theddlethorpe |fewer-links=x |access-date=14 August 2011}}
Landmarks
There are four listed buildings in Theddlethorpe St Helen.{{Cite web |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/theddlethorpe-st-helen-east-lindsey-lincolnshire |title=Listed buildings in Theddlethorpe St Helen, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire |publisher=British Listed Buildings |accessdate=6 December 2020}} Theddlethorpe St Helen has a church called St Helen's.{{Cite web |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/15112/ |title=St Helens, Theddlethorpe |publisher=A Church Near You |accessdate=6 December 2020}}
Theddlethorpe Hall is a Grade II listed red-brick country house from the late 17th century, with early 18th and 19th-century alterations.{{NHLE |num=1147241 |desc=The Hall, Theddlethorpe St Helen |fewer-links=x |access-date=14 August 2011}} The Stable Block is also Grade II listed and dates from the 19th century.{{NHLE |num=1062993 |desc=Stable Block at The Hall |fewer-links=x |access-date=14 August 2011}}
Education
Theddlethorpe St Helen has a primary school.{{Cite web |title=Theddlethorpe Primary School |url=http://www.theddlethorpe.lincs.sch.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410153117/http://www.theddlethorpe.lincs.sch.uk/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 April 2011 |publisher=Theddelthorpe Primary School |access-date=15 August 2011}}
=Former station=
Theddlethorpe railway station was on the Louth and East Coast Railway. It opened in 1877 and closed in 1960.{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=507092 |mname=Theddlethorpe railway station |access-date=14 August 2011}}
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! colspan="12" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|Population of Theddlethorpe St Helens Civil Parish |
| style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;"| Year
! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1801 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1811 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1821 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1831 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1841 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1851 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1881 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1891 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1901 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1911 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1921 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1931 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1951 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 1961 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 2001 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"| 2011 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;"| Population{{cite web|title=Vision of Britain|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10460098&c_id=10001043&add=N#tab02|access-date=25 August 2011}} | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 220 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 207 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 239 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 275 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 347 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 360 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 414 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 349 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 311 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 281 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 319 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 261 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 312 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 308 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 495 | style="background:#fff; color:black;"| 525 |
Geography
{{Geographic location
|title = Destinations from Theddlethorpe
|North-west = Skidbrooke, Marshchapel, Grimsby
|North = Saltfleetby, Kilnsea
|North-east =
|West = Grimoldby, Manby, Louth, Market Rasen
|Centre = Theddlethorpe
|East =
|South-west = Great Carlton, Tothill, Horncastle
|South = Mablethorpe, Sutton-on-Sea, Mumby
|South-east = Sandilands, Chapel St Leonards, Skegness
}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Theddlethorpe St Helen}}
- [http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Theddlethorpe/ Parish council]
- [http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/nnr/nnr_details.asp?NNR_ID=137 Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR]
- [http://www.jncc.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0030270 JNNC site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110831152916/http://www.theddlethorpe.lincs.sch.uk/ Theddlethorpe Primary School]
{{Portal bar|England|United Kingdom}}
{{Lincolnshire|state=collapsed}}
{{East Lindsey (district) |state=collapsed}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Villages in Lincolnshire
Category:Populated coastal places in Lincolnshire
Category:Civil parishes in Lincolnshire