SYSTON, a parish, with a village, in the district of Newark and county of Lincoln; 1½ mile ESE of Barkstone r. station, and 3 N by E of Grantham. Post town, Grantham. Acres, 1,613. Real property, £2,396. Pop., 238. Houses, 46. The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart. The village, under the name of Willingham, together with the neighbouring Jericho woods, figures in Sir Walter Scott's "Heart of Midlothian." The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £83.* Patron, the Rev. J.Thorold, Bart. The church is partly Norman. There is an endowed school with £30 a year.

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