Uffington is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 686. It is in the valley of the

River Welland The River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some long. It drains part of the Midlands eastwards to The Wash. The river Source (river), rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally nort ...

, between Stamford and

The Deepings The Deepings () are a series of settlements close to the River Welland near the borders of southern Lincolnshire and north western Cambridgeshire in eastern England. Peterborough is about 8 miles to the south, Spalding about 10 miles to the no ...

Geography

The village lies east of Stamford on the A1175 (previously the A16) where the low

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and cornbrash ridge on which it stands lies or so above the level of

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. Uffington Park, the grounds of a

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built in 1681 by the

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and demolished by fire in 1904, lies between the village and the

. Subsidiary buildings of Uffington House remain. To the north-east is Casewick House, a Grade I listed country house, now divided into three units; several associated buildings are Grade II. It was a medieval house, remodelled in the 17th century and refronted 1786–88 by William Legge of Stamford in Gothick style. Towards Stamford lay

Newstead Priory Newstead Priory was a priory in Lincolnshire, England, between Stamford and Uffington. It was founded as a hospital towards the end of the 12th century, and became a house of Augustinian Canons in or before 1226. Newstead Priory was situated on ...

. Newstead Mill is a Grade II listed watermill on the

River Gwash The River Gwash, occasionally Guash, a tributary of the River Welland, flows through the Historic counties of England, English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. It rises just outside the village of Knossington in Leicestersh ...

; it is now converted to flats.

Community

The Grade I listed parish church, St Michael and All Angels, dates back to the 12th century and was significantly

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in 1864 by

Edward Browning Edward Bailey Browning (1816 – 1882) was an English architect working in Stamford. Life Edward Browning was the son of the Stamford architect Bryan Browning (1773–1856). He was apprenticed to the London architect George Maddox and ...

. It is part of the Uffington Group of churches that also includes

Tallington Tallington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 497. It is situated east from Stamford and north-west from the centre of Peterborough ...

Barholm Barholm is a village in the civil parish of Barholm and Stowe, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is west from the A15 road, and south from Bourne. In 1921 the parish had a population of 170. Barholm is first recor ...

West Deeping West Deeping is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 255. It is situated on the A1175 road, east from Stamford and west from Market Deepi ...

, Wilsthorpe,

Braceborough Braceborough is a village in the civil parish of Braceborough and Wilsthorpe, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated off the Stamford to Bourne A6121 road, just west of the A15 as it runs between Market Deep ...

and

Greatford Greatford is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the A15, north-east from Stamford, and south from Bourne. Greatford is noted for Greatford Hall, once the home of th ...

. The thatched

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on Bertie Lane in the village is called the Bertie Arms. On the west side of the village is a nursery. Until 1961 the village was served by

Uffington and Barnack railway station Uffington and Barnack was a railway station in the Soke of Peterborough (now Cambridgeshire) serving the villages of Uffington, Barnack and Bainton. History The station was on the Midland Railway's Syston and Peterborough Railway from Peterbo ...

. Today the village is served by

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on the Stamford to Market Deeping route.

Lost village of Casewick

Casewick Hall is the location of a

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mentioned as "Casuic" in the

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survey, and as "Casewick" in a tax list of 1334. By 1816 only Casewick House and one other house had survived.

Governance

Uffington is served by a parish council, two district councillors who represent Casewick Ward on South Kesteven District Council and a county councillor representing Deepings West & Rural Division on Lincolnshire County Council. The district councillors elected in 2023 are Rosemary Trollope-Bellew (Con) and Vanessa Smith (Green). The county councillor elected in 2021 is Ashley Baxter (Ind).

References

External links

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Parish Council website

Uffington Primary school

Village information, news and events
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