STAINFIELD, a parish in the district and county of Lincoln; 2¾ miles N by W of Bardney r. station, and 9 E by S of Lincoln. Post town, Wragby. Acres, 2,450. Real property, £2,277. Pop., 164. Houses, 33. The manor belongs to T. T. Drake, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Henry Percy. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £71. Patron, T. T. Drake, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1811. There is a national school.

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