RAUCEBY (NORTH), a parish in the wapentake of FLAXWELL, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (W.) from Sleaford, containing 252 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5. 1. 0., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.