The village is situated 6 miles (10 km) north-west from the town of Horncastle, and is part of the Minting civil parish.

Gautby parish church is dedicated to All Saints, and is a Grade II* listed building, rebuilt in 1754 of red brick, incorporating some medieval work by Robert Vyner of Gautby Park as a family chapel.

[1] A further memorial, an incised slab, records the murder of Frederick G. Vyner by Greek brigands in 1870.

[5] On the island was an equestrian statue of Charles I "trampling on a prostrate foe", recorded by Kelly's Directory in 1885.

[6] Pevsner relates that this statue by Jasper Latham is now at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire.