FOSTON, a parish in the district of Newark and county of Lincoln; near the boundary with Notts and Leicester, 3 miles W by S of Hougham r. station, and 5¾ NW by N of Grantham. Post town, Long Bennington, under Grantham. Acres, 2, 180. Real property, £3, 994. Pop., 479. Houses, 119. Foston House belongs to the noble family of Manners-Sutton; and gives them the title of Baron Manners of Foston. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Long Bennington, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is ancient, and has a pinnacled tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

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