Ruskington, Lincolnshire

Description
Ruskington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 3 1/2 miles N by E of Sleaford. It has a station on the G.N. and G.E. Joint railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sleaford (S.O.) Acreage, 3971; population of the civil parish, 1095 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1082. There is an urban district council consisting of nine members. There are steam joinery works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £350 with residence. The church is a spacious edifice of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a low western tower; it was restored in 1861, and the chancel was enlarged in 1873. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a cemetery of about an acre, two cottages erected in 1887 for the benefit of the poor and known as the "Teetotal Homes," and a small charity; also three bedehouses for poor widows belonging to Lady Hodgson's Charity. A temperance hall, used for meetings and lectures, was erected in 1857, and a reading-room and library in 1877, and greatly improved in 1891.