"SLEAFORD, OLD (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 1 mile (S. E.) from the town of New Sleaford; containing 345 inhabitants. The church has been demolished upwards of 200 years, for which period there has been no presentation, the vicarage being supposed to have merged into the impropriation, and the inhabitants attending divine service at Quarrington. The vicarage is valued in the king's books at £4. 10.": 'Sleaford, New - Slyne', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 120-123. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51283&strquery=sleaford. Date accessed: 11 January 2008.