Barkstone or Barkston-le-Willows, a parish in Lincolnshire, 4 miles NNE of Grantham. It has a post office under Grantham, and a station on the G.N.R.; telegraph office, Honington (R.S.) Acreage, 2118; population, 476. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £349 with residence. The church is ancient and interesting, and the parish possesses two or three useful charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5