Description
Quarrington, a parish, with a neat small village, in Lincolnshire, 1 1/2 mile SW by W of Sleaford station on the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Sleaford. Acreage, 1471; population of the civil parish, 454; of the ecclesiastical, with Old Sleaford, 969. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Bristol. The living is a rectory, united in 1860 with Old Sleaford, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is an ancient building of Ancaster stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, N and S doors, and a western tower with an octagonal spire.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
