RUSKINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Sleaford district, Lincoln; 3½ miles N by E of Sleaford r. station. It has a post-office under Sleaford. Acres, 4, 750. Real property, £6, 337. Pop., 1,089. Houses, 240. The manor belongs to the Earl of Winchelsea. The living is twofold, a rectory and a vicarage, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value of the rectory, £300; of the vicarage, £124. Patron of the former, the Rev.J. Myers; of the latter, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partlyearly English; has a low tower mainly rebuilt in 1620, but retaining a Norman arch; and was restored in 1861. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities £46.

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