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Uffington (St. Michael)

UFFINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Stamford, wapentake of Ness, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 2 miles (E. by N.) from Stamford; containing, with the hamlet of Casewick, 530 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Stamford to Boston, and considerable facilities are afforded by the river Welland. Stone is quarried for the roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £21. 5. 2½.: net income, £837; patron, the Earl of Lindsey, whose splendid mansion is in the parish. There is a glebe of 60 acres, with a house; and some land in Deeping fen belongs to the rectory. The church is a handsome structure, partly in the early and partly in the later English style, with a fine tower and spire, and some fragments of ancient stained glass. A national school was endowed by Albemarle, 9th earl of Lindsey, with £20 per annum: £10. 4. per annum, arising from various bequests, are distributed in money and bread, and from this fund a child is occasionally apprenticed. An hospital, or priory of Augustine canons, in honour of the Virgin Mary, was founded in the reign of Henry III. or his predecessor, by William de Albini, and at the Dissolution had a revenue of £42. 1. 3.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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