Thornton Le Fen is a small civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in the county of Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England, about
6 miles (9.7 km) north of the town of Boston

Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...

. It lies in Wildmore

Wildmore

Wildmore is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, located about north west of the town of Boston and about south of Horncastle....

Fen, and was created in 1812 after the fen was drained in 1802.
It is mostly farmland with a population of 345, and contains the hamlets of Bunkers Hill and Gipsey Bridge.

Gipsey Bridge School was built in 1859, and was taken over by the Wildmore Fen United District School Board in 1879 where it was renamed the Gipsey Bridge Board School until the Board was abolished in 1903. After this it was known as Thornton Le Fen Council School, Thornton Le Fen County School, Gipsey Bridge County Primary School, before it took its present name, Gipsey Bridge Primary School, in 1999.