station on the Grantham and Lincoln railway line. Mensa International has had its registered office in the village since 2008. Agricultural college Caythorpe Court, to the east of the village, was built as a hunting lodge, used in the Second World War as an auxiliary hospital and from 1946 it was Kesteven Agricultural College – the only college of its type in south-west Lincolnshire, recognised nationally for its excellence in agricultural engineering. In 1980 it became part of Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, and in 1994 was taken over by De Montfort University. When Riseholme Agricultural College, also part of De Montfort, was adopted by the new University of Lincoln in 2001, Caythorpe was subsumed into Lincoln as the Lincolnshire School of Agriculture. The school closed in September 2002, after which the building became a PGL activity centre. Notable people Edmund Weaver, 18th-century astronomer and land agent, lived at Frieston. He was buried at St Vincent's Church, where his memorial is placed in the south chancel. George Hussey Packe (1796–1874), MP for the Southern Division of the County of Lincolnshire and Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, built and lived at Caythorpe Hall and provided the village school and patronage for St Vincent's Church. Gallery References External links Caythorpe and Frieston Parish Council, Lincolnshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2011 "Village fights asylum plan", BBC News, 13 January 2003. Retrieved 13 July 2011 Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District