Description
Stapleford, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 7 miles ENE of Newark, and 5 SSE from Swinderby station on the Nottingham and Lincoln branch of the M.R. Post town, Newark; money order and telegraph office, Bassingham. Acreage, 2725; population of the civil parish, 147; of the ecclesiastical, with Carlton-le-Moorland, 424. Lord Middleton is lord of the manor and lay impropriator. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Carlton-le-Moorland. The church is a plain small building of brick erected upon the old foundation in the 17th century. The ancient 14th century tower, which is the striking feature of the building, remains.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
