HALE (GREAT), a parish in the wapentake of ASWARDHURN,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN,
5 miles (E.S.E.) from Sleaford, containing, with the
township of Little Hale, 863 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8.6., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church,dedicated to
St. John the Baptist, is principally in the decorated style
of English architecture.