Description
Honington, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, near Ermine Street, 6 miles NNE from Grantham, with a station on the Grantham, Sleaford, and Boston branch of the G.N.B., and a post office under Grantham; money order office, Grantham; telegraph office, Honington station. Acreage, 1486; population, 183. E. S. Trafford, Esq., is lord of the manor and sole landowner. A double-ditched Roman (some say British) camp is here, and many Roman coins and urns have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £150. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman, Early English, and Later styles. Honington Hall is a modern mansion of stone in the Elizabethan style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
