SKELLINGTHORPE, a village and a parish in the district and county of Lincoln. The village stands near the Lincoln and Gainsborough railway, 3½ miles W of Lincoln; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Lincoln. The parish contains also the hamlet of Swallowbeck, and comprises 6,220 acres. Real property, £7,115. Pop., 662. Houses, 132. The manor was bequeathed, in 1693, by H. Stone, Esq., to Christ's hospital, London. S. Hall is the seat of R. Coupland, Esq. Much of the land was reclaimed from a marshy state subsequent to 1835. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, not reported. Patron, Spittal Hospital. The church was recently repaired. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a parochial school.

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