Blankney, a parish in Lincolnshire, 1 mile S of Blankney station on the Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the G.N.R. and G.E.R., 9 miles N of Sleaford and 10 from Lincoln. It includes the hamlet of Linwood, and has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 6781; population, 627. Blankney Hall is a fine mansion of stone. The saloon is hung with magnificent tapestry of great value. It is now the seat of the Chaplin family, and in connection with it there is a famous stud of thoroughbred horses. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £540 with residence. The church, a Gothic building of stone, was restored in 1880.
