[2] Counthorpe shares the Grade I listed Anglican parish church at Creeton, dedicated to St Peter.

Two examples of Saxon crosses stand in the churchyard, with 20 stone coffins considered to mark the interment of Cistercian monks of Vallis Dei abbey in the neighbouring parish of Edenham.

[4] Counthorpe was formerly a hamlet in the parish of Castle Bytham[5] and had, up to the 16th century, its own parochial chapel,[4] but was annexed to Creeton in 1860.

[6] Counthorpe is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a small village in the parish of Castle Bytham, but which, for ecclesiastical purposes, became on 30 June 1860 united with Creeton.

At this time Counthope was a township of 78 people in about 130 acres (0.5 km2) of land divided between three farms; a farmer of one of these, at Counthorpe Lodge, was also a grazier.