STAINFIELD, a parish in the western division of the wapentake of WRAGGOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wragby, containing 103 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Apley, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. A priory of Benedictine nuns was founded here, in the reign of Henry II., by Henry Percy, which at the dissolution possessed a revenue of £112. 5.