Tallington (St. Lawrence)

TALLINGTON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Stamford, wapentake of Ness, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Market-Deeping; containing 246 inhabitants. The river Welland, and a canal from Stamford to Boston, run through the southern part of the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 9. 8.; net income, £200; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Lindsey. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1801; the glebe contains about 120 acres. On the outside of the church, above the chancel is a rood bell, formerly rung at the elevation of the host. Edward Heron, in 1582, bequeathed some tenements and land to the parish, now producing, with an augmentation, £45 per annum.