Description

Barlings, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 6 miles ENE of Lincoln, and 2 SE from Langworth station on the M.S. & L.R. It includes the hamlet of Langworth. Acreage, 1686; population, 419. There is a post office at Langworth, under Lincoln; telegraph office, Langworth station; money order office, Scotherne. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded in 1154 at Barling-Grange, and afterwards re-founded at Oxeney, and was given at the dissolution to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. the last abbot of it, Dr Mackerel, was executed at Tyburn in 1537 for heading the Lincoln insurrection against the Crown. Only a few mutilated pillars of the edifice now remain. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £85 with residence. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles.