BECKINGHAM, a parish in Gainsborough district, Notts; on the Lincoln and Doncaster railway, 2½ miles W by N of Gainsborough. It has a post office under Gainsborough, and a r. station. Acres, 3,010. Real property, £5,727. Pop., 450. Houses, 104. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £110. Patron, the Prebendary of Southwell. The church is good; and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and charities £21. Dr. William Howell, the historian, was a native.

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