DONINGTON-UPON-BAIN, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; on the river Bain, 6½ miles SW of Louth, and 7½ SW of Louth r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Donington, under Louth. Acres, 1,890. Real property, £2, 828. Pop., 552. Houses, 109. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £173.* Patron, Lord Monson. The church is very ancient, and was recently in disrepair. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, a national school, and charities £42.

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