Thurlby is both a village and parish about a mile south of Bourne. Witham on the Hill parish lies to the west and the River Glen forms part of the south-eastern boundary. The area is about 4,000 acres of flat fenland, drained by many small canals.

Othorpe is a very small hamlet 1 mile southwest of the village and Northorpe is a hamlet 1 mile north of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• The Dole Wood Nature Reserve is about one mile southwest of the village and managed by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
   
• The A15 trunk road runs through the east end of the village itself.
   
• Colin PYLE has a photograph of entering the village from the south on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the busstop on the green on Geo-graph, takeen in April, 2014.
   
• Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of a Delaine Company Bus on route 101 on geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Stop by the Thurlby Community Center and ask to see the Schedule of Forth-coming events. You may find a conveninet talk on local history or families. Robert HARVEY has a photograph of the Lawrence Park Community Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2019.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.

The county town is Lincoln, famous for its magnificent cathedral, which ranks as one of the most awe inspiring in the world. Lincolnshire is separated from ancient Yorkshire by the River Humber and lies north of Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire. To the west are Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. To the east lies the North Sea.

• Lincolnshire County Council's Pages.
   
• For those who plan to vacation in Lincolnshire or visit the ancestral sites, a little planning and a visit to our Touring Resource page may be in order.
   

• English Heritage are responsible for the care and repair of many buildings of historic importance. The Historic England Archive  (previously the National Monuments Record) is English Heritage's public archive and is the home of around 10 million items covering England's buildings, archaeology and maritime sites. English Heritage's ambitious Images of England initiative aims to put a photograph of every listed building in England on the internet.
• The Badger's Heritage website features many pen and ink drawings of churches, schools, pubs, hotels, bridges, locks, mills, cottages & villages in Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
• Destination England from Lonely Planet.
• There are many links on the (Internet Archive snapshot from 2018) England's Buildings webring.
• ViewFinder - an online image resource for England's history provided by Historic England.
• The England in Particular website from Common Ground encourages the study of our own localities.

• Descriptions of the county and its towns and parishes from different periods can be found in trade directories from the early 19th century onwards - see Directories.
• Travel Writing - transcriptions of a number of books describing early travels in Britain, from Vision of Britain.
• The U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens provided by Landscapes & Gardens at the University of York.
• The complete texts of Defoe's Tour of Great Britain (1778), Thompson's Tour of England and Scotland (1785) and Stebbing's Tour of the west of England. Made available by The Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and University Library.
• Geograph British Isles - "aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles".
• Historical Aerial Photography - "an unsurpassed collection of information about old aerial photographs of the UK, from the 40's to the 90's..."
• Britain From Above - "the unique Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953".
• Round the Coast scanned photographs from "An album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interest in Great Britain and Ireland" (George Newnes Ltd., 1895)" provided by by Rosemary and Stan Rodliffe.
• A modern map of the United Kingdom.