Early and later modern Quarrington, Lincolnshire

northfield road, 2007

the town s fields enclosed in 1796 , map of village drawn @ same time, showing settlement along town road , townside road rector field , earl field north , north-east respectively. @ time, more 210 acres of land allotted rectory lord bristol in place of tithes had been entitled to. during mid , late-19th century, population of old village of quarrington declined (from 98 in 1851 72 in 1871). aside rectory , church, village included 2 large farms , cluster of labourers cottages around town road. 1872, parish spanned 1,620 acres , village contained 63 houses. same year, trollope wrote appearance of small village, lying around cared church, pleasing . sleaford expanded, houses built along london , station roads, pushing town inside quarrington parish boundaries in became new quarrington. sanitation in poorest parts of sleaford worsened during 19th century , local board of health charged improving living conditions. in 1879, lord bristol sold land on quarrington hill board, built pumping station transport clean fenland water east town.

most of land remained in possession of marquesses of bristol throughout 20th century, 1970s indebted 6th marquess , son, 7th marquess, sold of farmland around sleaford , quarrington. in 1989, bristol estates office in sleaford closed. result boom in house-building, in fields around quarrington. in 1980s, hundreds of houses constructed in southfields, , developments on quarrington hill followed in late 1990s. low house prices , crime rates, , educational facilities in sleaford made new homes attractive. local historian simon pawley wrote, quarrington ... began more suburb of sleaford village in own right . in july 2015 planning permission further 200 homes between northfield road , a15 granted north kesteven district council.