SAPPERTON, a parish in the soke of GRANTHAM,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (W.)
from Falkingham, containing 55 inhabitants. The Jiving
is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£5. 9. 9., endowed with £600 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir W. E.
Welby, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.