Uffington, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Uffington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland, with a station on the M.R., 2½ miles E of Stamford. It has a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Stamford. Acreage, 4165; population, 439. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with Uffington Hall, belongs to the Earl of Lindsey. Casewick Hall is the seat of Lord Kesteven. An Augustinian canonry was founded at Newstead in the time of Henry III. by W. de Albini, and was given at the Dissolution to R. Manours. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lindsey. The church is partly Early English, with a handsome crocketed spire, and contains some handsome and ancient monuments. There is an endowed school with £20 a year.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Uffington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Uffington (St. Michael))

Maps

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• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury

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