Located 15 km west of the town of Simrishamn, Smedstorp is a small village with 363 inhabitants in 2010.

At the turn of the century there were approximately ten stores in the town and around forty other businesses and craftsmen, including a distillery, a brewery and a dairy.

In the latter part of the sixteenth century, Anders Keldsen Bing built the manor house that stands today.

This two-storey house built of grey stone is now in private ownership and is not open to the public.

There is an impressive sculpture in the church, which was made to commemorate Anders Bing, the founder of Smedstorp manor.

Made of blackstone, sandstone, marble, and alabaster, the sculpture is considered to be one of the strangest pieces of art of the Nordic Renaissance.

[2] Geographically, Smedstorp is situated right in the middle of the area called Österlen, the south-east corner of Sweden.

This area is bounded by Brösarp to the north, Simrishamn to the east, Tomelilla to the west and Sandhammaren to the south.

There is also a village shop which stocks a wide assortment of food and other products, as well as providing some postal services.

The hall itself is available for hire, and hosts a lot of activities, such as the traditional New Year's Eve party and the Thursday luncheon for the retired people from the village and round about.

Local societies and associations arrange bric-a-brac stalls and jumble sales, and a traditional countryside auction.

The Simrishamn-Ystad stretch of railway was upgraded to take electric trains in 2003 and substantial improvements were made to the track during 2005–06.

In 1859, member of the Swedish parliament, Ola Månsson, fled from Smedstorp to the United States of America.

He left Sweden with his 21-year-old mistress and their newly born son Karl-August, abandoning his wife and their seven children.

His son, Charles A. Lindbergh, born 4 February 4, 1902, made the first ever non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a single-seated aeroplane on May 20–21, 1927.