SLEAFORD (OLD), a parish in the wapentake of
ASWARDHURN, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN,
1 mile (S. E.) from New Sleaford, containing 215
inhabitants. The living was a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books
at £4. 10., and in the patronage of the Marquis of
Bristol. The church, which was dedicated to St. Giles,
has been demolished upwards of two hundred years,
for which period there has been no presentation, the
vicarage being now supposed to have merged into the
impropriation: the inhabitants attend divine service
at Quarrington, or New Sleaford. The Roman street
passes through the parish.