Uffington, Lincolnshire

Description
Uffington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland, with a station on the M.R., 2 1/2 miles E of Stamford. It has a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Stamford. Acreage, 4165; population, 439. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with Uffington Hall, belongs to the Earl of Lindsey. Casewick Hall is the seat of Lord Kesteven. An Augustinian canonry was founded at Newstead in the time of Henry III. by W. de Albini, and was given at the Dissolution to R. Manours. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lindsey. The church is partly Early English, with a handsome crocketed spire, and contains some handsome and ancient monuments. There is an endowed school with £20 a year.