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Quarrington is a suburb of the Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford. Formerly a hamlet of c.1,500 acres with Anglo-Saxon origins, it was included into the town in 1837.

History
Quarrington is variously listed in documents as XXXX. The name is derived from the Old English words 'cweorn' and 'tun' (literally mill homestead), an allusion to the presence of a mill recorded in the parish's entry in the 1086 Domesday book (where it appears as "Corninctune" or "Corninctone"). At the time of it's Domesday entry the village had two churches. The location of the mill and one of the churches is not known. The area was probably inhabited as far back as the Anglo-Saxon era; excavations to the south of Quarrington village in 2000 and 2001 uncovered a small burial site from this period.

In 1760 the parsonage house burned down when a spark from a gun fired up the chimney by Reverend George Ray, in an effort to clean it, ignited the thatched roof. A new parsonage was built in 1845 by Reverend Hine.

Coal was thought to have been found in the parish in 1796, leading to excavation works on the western side of the turnpike road from Sleaford to Folkingham. No coal was ever found.

Church
Quarringtion is listed as having two churches in 1086, however only one church remains in the present day and the location of the other is unknown. The current Church of England building, dedicated to St. Botolph, largely dates from the 13th century. Later improvements, including an 1895 lychgate, expanded the building which is constructed from Ancaster stone. The earliest records of incumbent rectors date to around 1218, when the church fell under the auspices of Haverholme priory.

The tower and spire (which was described in 1872 by Edward Trollope as "sadly out of proportion with the tower") were constructed in around 1352. In 1862 Charles Kirk (of the local firm Kirk and Parry) designed and built as "quinrangular apse" in the church.