Theddlethorpe History Club

The village neighbouring Theddlethorpe to the North.  Formerly three separate parishes of St Peter, St Clements and All Saints.  The main road through the village is the B1200, the population in 2021 was recorded as 544. 

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There is evidence of a Roman Villa in the village, with many finds of pottery.  It may have been a site for coastal salt making and distribution via Roman roads.  The Danes later settled in the area, a spindle-whorl marked with runes was found in Saltfleetby Clements in 2010, indicating that the Norse gods were still important to the people as late as the 10th-12th century. 

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Of the original three Medieval churches in the parishes, two were rebuilt on different sites in the Victorian era, only All Saints is in its original location.  The remains of the 15th century tower of St Peter's remains at its original site, as it was too expensive to move with the rest of the church in 1877.  Three Methodist chapels were built in the 19th century, one now demolished, the other converted to a home and a snooker hall. 

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During the Napoleonic war local men joined the Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe volunteer army to defend against the threat of French invasion from the sea and evacuate the area if the beacons were lit.  During the second world war there was a huge army training camp on the coast.  A concrete look-out post that used to be manned by the Notts and Derby "Sherwood Foresters" is still at Sea View.  In the second world war, many new Lincolnshire three bay pillboxes and other defenses were put up, and the village has an active home guard unit made up of local volunteers.

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The railway station opened in 1877, an important stop on the line that went from Louth - Grimoldby - Saltfleetby - Theddlethorpe and Mablethorpe.  It closed in 1960.

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The first day school for village children was at the West Methodist chapel.  The Church of England National School was opened in 1850 and served local children until its closure in 2016.  It has now been converted into the Little Village Tea Shop.

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At the first records from 1792 there were three licensed public houses in Saltfleetby (at that time the names were not recorded).  The Angel Inn on the Main Road, St Peter, closed in about 1922.  The Prussian Queen remains the last surviving pub in the village, with an eventful history including being accidentally bombed in the 1950s.

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The clay pits of the old brick yard are now fishing lakes.  For many years also the site of the last village shop, which closed in 2006.

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