SEMPERINGHAM, a township and a parish in Bourn district, Lincoln. The township lies 2 miles E of the Bourn and Sleaford railway, and 3 E S E of Folkingham. Real property, £3, 710. Pop., 57. Houses, 10. The parish contains also the hamlet of Birthorpe and the village of Pointon; the latter of which has a post-office under Folkingham. Acres, 3, 480. Pop., 632. Houses, 117. A Gilbertine priory was founded here in 1148, by Sir Gilbert de S., a native and vicar; and was the head of its order in England. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £137. Patron, Earl Fontescue. The church was the church of the priory, is early English, and has a massive pinnacled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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