Kettlethorpe is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

[3] The ecclesiastical parish is Kettlethorpe with Fenton, part of the Saxilby Group of the Deanery of Corringham.

[4] The moat surrounding Kettlethorpe Hall survives in part on all four sides of a rectangle and presumably is the remnant of the manor later held by the Swynford family in the 14th and 15th centuries, including Katherine Swynford, subsequent third wife of John of Gaunt, and Duchess of Lancaster.

In 1383 Katherine Swynford received a licence from King Richard II to enclose land and establish a park of 300 acres (1.2 km2) within her manor of Kettlethorpe.

[8] The settlement of Laughterton looks like a planned village, with properties of approximately equal depth on either side of a straight north–south street.