Description

Beckingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 3 1/2 miles N of Claypole station on the G.N.R., and 5 E of Newark. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton, and has a post office under Newark, which is the telegraph office ; money order office, Brant Broughton. Acreage, 1964; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, with Stragglethorpe and Fenton, 431. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacies of Stragglethorpe and Fenton, in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £430 with residence. The church, which is a stone building chiefly of the Perpendicular period, was restored in 1857-58, and again in 1888. There is a Wesleyan chapel.