Description
Tallington, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Welland and the G.N.R. main line, on which there is a station, 4 miles E by N of Stamford. There is a post office under Stamford; money order and telegraph office, Barnack. Acreage, 1791; population, 253. The manor belongs to the Earl of Lindsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £156 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lindsey. The church is an ancient cruciform edifice of Barnack stone chiefly in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a western tower. The spire was destroyed by lightning on 13 Aug. 1762. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
