HARRINGTON, a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln, 5 miles NW of Spilsby r. station, and 5½ W of Alford. It has a post-office under Spilsby. Acres, 1,052. Real property, £2,216. Pop., 104. Houses, 23. The manor, with all the property, belonged formerly to the Copledykes and the Amcottses; and belongs now to the Rev. H. J. Ingilby. Harrington Hall is a late Tudor mansion, Italianised. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. H. J. Ingilby. The church was rebuilt in 1854; is in the decorated English style; and contains monuments of the Copledykes and the Amcottses.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))