It lies on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds – a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – in the valley of the River Lymn.

[7] The spire is a prominent landmark resembling on a smaller scale that of St. James Church, Louth, 12 miles (19 km) to the north.

Pelham Dale SSC – prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist practices in 1876 and 1880, and so regarded as a martyr by Anglo-Catholics – was the parish priest from 1881 to 1892.

Charles Trollope Swan LLB as living at Sausthorpe Hall, a "modern mansion in a park of 30 acres".

He granted the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence (the Old Hall, see below) and 34 acres (0.14 km2) of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882.