STOWE, a parish in the wapentake of NESS, parts
of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 2 miles (W.N.W.)
from Market-Deeping, containing 21 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, with which that of Barholme
was united, in 1772, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £4.3.9->
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Governors of Oakham and Uppingham schools.
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.