Description
Market Stainton, a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 miles SE from Donington station on the Lincoln and Louth sectionof the G.N.R., and 8 N by W from Horncastle. It was once a market-town, and had a yearly fair, but the market long ago became obsolete, and the fair was sold and removed to Horncastle in 1768. Post town and money order office, Lincoln; telegraph office, Donnington station. Acreage, 1204; population, 123. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £77. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
