MARTIN'S-STAMFORD-BARON (ST.), a parish in the liberty of PETERBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 1 mile (S. E.) from Stamford, containing, with the hamlet of Woothorpe, 1226 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 9., endowed with £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Exeter. Here is a trifling endowment, the gift of Lady Dorothy Cecil, for teaching and apprenticing poor children. A Benedictine nunnery, in honour of our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, was founded here in the time of Henry II., by William de Waterville, abbot of Peterborough, to which abbey it was subordinate; it had at one period forty nuns, but at the dissolution it possessed a revenue of only £72. IS. 10.