COLSTERWORTH, a parish partly in the wapentake
of BELTISLOE, comprising the township of Twyford,
but chiefly in the soke of GRANTHAM, parts of
KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 32 miles (S. by W.)
from Lincoln, containing 776 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £ 14. ID., and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of South Grantham in the
Cathedral Church of Lincoln.' The church, dedicated
to St. John the Baptist, is a small structure of early
English architecture, with a good tower in the later
style. There is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists.
The village is situated in a beautiful valley,
through which winds the river Witham. Sir Isaac
Newton was born here, on Christmas-day, 1642, about
three, months after the death of his father, who was
lord of the manor 5 he received the rudiments of his
education at the free grammar school at Grantham,
and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1660.