TALLINGTON (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Stamford, wapentake of Ness, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Market-Deeping; containing 246 inhabitants. A canal from Stamford to Boston, and the river Welland, run through the southern portion of the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 9. 8.; net income, £200; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Lindsey. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1801; the glebe contains about 120 acres. On the outside of the church, above the chancel, is a rood bell, formerly rung at the elevation of the host. Edward Heron, in 1582, bequeathed some tenements and land, now producing, with an augmentation, £45 per annum, which sum is applied to the payment of a schoolmistress, to the repairs of the church and bridges, and to the relief of the poor.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
