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__NOTOC__ Morton and Hanthorpe is a civil parish, formerly known as Morton by Bourne in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north from Bourne, and south-east from Grantham. According to the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 2,406. ==History== The village is in two parts, one each side of the fen-edge road, the A15. To the fenward side is Morton and to the upland side is Hanthorpe. The earlier name is that of Morton which will come from the acid peat land which the Anglian settlers found in the fen in around the year 500. The name therefore indicates that the fen was to a significant extent better called the bog in modern terminology. They were Germanic speakers so they called it a moor. Hanthorpe is a name indicating a subsidiary settlement established in the period of the Danish settlements, probably in the tenth century. The church and the later signs of the manorial centre are in Morton. The church is built in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and was restored in 1860 and 1951. A baptist chapel was built in 1875, and closed around a hundred years later. In the late 19th century Morton Road railway station opened in 1872 and finally closed in 1964. A gazetteer of the 19th century said: George Hussey Packe, the 19th-century South Lincolnshire Member of Parliament and chairman of the Great Northern Railway, was born at Hanthorpe Hall in 1796.〔Sylvanus, Urban; ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (1837), volume 7, p.656〕〔Howard, Joseph Jackson, Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1899); ''Visitations of England and Wales'', volume 7, p.167. ISBN 1146165595〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morton and Hanthorpe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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