| Official Name: | Stainfield |
| Static Image Name: | Elsthorpe Road, Stainfield - geograph.org.uk - 312136.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Elsthorpe Road, Stainfield |
| Static Image 2 Name: | Roman road outside Stainfield near Bourne (South Kesteven, Lincolnshire).jpg |
| Static Image 2 Caption: | The line of the Roman road |
| Civil Parish: | Haconby |
| Country: | England |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF079250 |
| Coordinates: | 52.811°N -0.4°W |
| Shire District: | South Kesteven |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Post Town: | BOURNE |
| Postcode District: | PE10 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Dial Code: | 01778 |
| London Distance Mi: | 90 |
| London Direction: | S |
Stainfield is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 3miles north from Bourne and 1miles west from the main A15 trunk road. The hamlet is in the civil parish of Haconby.
The name Stainfield (previously Stenfield) derives from "a stony clearing", from the Old Scandinavian 'steinn' and 'thveit'.[1]
Stainfield is the site of a Roman station, a settlement established on account of local mineral springs, where Roman coins have been found. The King Street (Roman road) passes through the hamlet. The springs were used until the middle of the 18th century. There was once a chapel in the hamlet.[2]
Stainfield is listed in the 1086 Domesday account as "Stainfelde" or "Steinfelde", in the manor of Haconby and Stainfield, and in the Aveland Hundred of Kesteven. The village contained 14 households, 13 villagers, 6 smallholders, 3 freemen and one priest. It comprised just over 3 ploughlands, a meadow of 40acres, woodland of 80acres, and one mill. The Lord in 1066 was Leofric. In 1086 the land was passed to Heppo the bowman, as Lord of the Manor and Tenant-in-chief.[3] [4]
In 1933 Stainfield occupations included two farmers, one at the Manor farm, and three smallholders.[5]