Manthorpe's church of St John the Evangelist, consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1848, is in early Decorated style.

It consists of a chancel, nave, south porch, and vestry, and a tower with two bells and a spire 50 feet (15 m) high.

[6] Kelly's describes the area as being skirted on the north by a formation of blue lias, and on the south by oolite, with land being of sand with a gravel subsoil.

Chief crops grown were wheat, barley, oats and turnips, in a township area of 1,228 acres (497 ha) that included Little Gonerby.

Township occupations included four farmers, two cow-keepers, a grazier, a wheelwright, three shopkeepers, and a miller at Manthorpe Mill, a watermill.

[citation needed] By the late 1940s there were about a dozen houses west of Manthorpe Road, with the village still separated from Grantham.

[citation needed] During the 1950s and 1960s houses were built west of Manthorpe Road and on the side of the River Witham.

In the 1960s Grantham became conjoined to the village after the Manthorpe housing estate was built on the north side of the town.