KYME (SOUTH), a township and a parish in Sleaford district, Lincoln. The township lies on Car-Dyke, 5 miles SW of Dogdyke r. station, and 7 ENE of Sleaford. Acres, 4,868. Real property, £7,678. Pop., 549. Houses, 103. The parish contains also the township of North Kyme; and its post-town is Sleaford. The property of both townships belongs to the Hon. Charles H. Cust. The manor house is occupied by B. Chambers, Esq. A black priory was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Philip de Kyme; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Earl of Rutland and Robert Tirwhit. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £99.* Patron, the Hon. C. H. Cust. The church

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))