DEEPING-ST. JAMES, a parish in Bourn district, Lincoln; on the river Welland, at the boundary with Northampton, 1¾ mile from the Peterborough and Boston railway, and 1 mile E of Market-Deeping. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Market-Deeping. Acres, 6, 470. Real property, £10, 741. Pop., 1, 763. Houses, 411. The property is much subdivided. A Benedictine priory was founded here, in 1139, by Baldwin Wake; was given to Thorney abbey; and passed, at the dissolution, to the Norfolks. There is a mineral spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £191.* Patron, Sir T. Whichcote, Bart. The church is of the time of Henry III.; has a lofty tower and octangular spire; and was recently repaired. There are a Calvinist chapel, two Methodist chapels, an endowed school, and charities £211.

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