What is Grimsthorpe?

Context: Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A151 road, and 3 miles north-west from Bourne. Grimsthorpe falls within the civil parish of Edenham, which is governed by Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthorpe & Scottlethorpe Parish Council.

Grimsthorpe Castle is 500 yards to the west.

John Marius Wilson's 1870 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grimsthorpe as: a hamlet in Edenham parish, Lincoln; on the river Glen, 1½ mile W of Edenham village. Pop., 135. Grimsthorpe Park was the seat once of the Duke of Ancaster, afterwards of Lord Gwyder; is now the seat of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby; was built partly in the time of Henry III., but principally by the Duke of Suffolk, to entertain Henry VIII.; is a large, irregular, but magnificent structure; and stands in an ornate park, about 16 miles in circuit. A Cistertian abbey, founded about 1451, by the Earl of Albemarle, and called Vallis Dei, or, vulgarly, Vaudy, formerly stood in the park, about a mile from the castle.

Answer: Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire . It is situated on the A151 road, and 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Bourne . The hamlet falls within the civil parish of Edenham, which is governed by Edenham GrimstHorpe & Scottlethorpe Parish Council . It falls within a Cistertian abbey founded about 1451 by the Earl of Albemarle .