[2] Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is notable as the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, his home, Woolsthorpe Manor, being a visitor attraction.

Newton was christened at the parish church of St John the Baptist, where a copy of the entry in the register can be found.

A Roman smelting furnace was found at Colsterworth in 1931, as was a small defended Late Iron Age settlement in the 1940s.

[4] Colsterworth is raised upon a slight limestone ridge, with the River Witham running below on the western side and dividing the two villages.

The White Lion public house, standing opposite the parish church of St John the Baptist, alone now serves the population.

[8] Colsterworth lies one mile to the west of Twyford Wood, which was the site of a Second World War airfield RAF North Witham, and still retains military artefacts, including open runways and a derelict control tower.

Inside the church, behind the organ, is a stone sundial plate, cut with a penknife by Sir Isaac Newton when he was nine years of age.

During and for some time after the Second World War, work was available at the ironstone excavations,[14] but after operations ceased in the 1970s, the site was filled and levelled.

Farming, the traditional occupation that absorbed most of the workforce, still provides some employment, for instance at the Openfield grain cooperative on the former RAF station.

There is work at fast-food restaurants OK Diner and Travelodge on the A1, and at the nearby Stoke Rochford Hall, a conference and function centre.

[15] The village has a post office, a medical surgery, a Co-op store and a hairdresser, with greengrocer, butcher and fishmonger mobile shops.

More recently, in 2009, a further housing development commenced on land previously utilised for steel storage and distribution, known as Newton Grange.

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