Description
Lissington, a parish in Lincolnshire, on a small tributary of the river Witham, 2 1/2 miles NE of Wickenby station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of the M.S. & L.R., and 4 NNW of Wragby. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Wragby. Acreage, 1533; population, 220. The manor belongs to the Turnor family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £245 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
