MESSINGHAM, a village, a township, and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The village stands 3½ miles E of the river Trent, 4 NW by N of Kirton-inLindsey r. station, and 7½ W by S of Glanford-Brigg; is large and well built; and has a post office under KirtonLindsey, and a fair on Trinity Monday.-The township comprises 5,450 acres. Real property, £7,922. Pop., 1,086. Houses, 247.—The parish contains also the larger portion of East Butterwick township. Acres, with the rest of East Butterwick, 6,130. Real property, with the rest of E. B., £10,319. Pop., exclusive of the rest of E. B., 1,362. Houses, 301. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to W. Smith, Esq. About 1,000 acres were formerly a low, sandy, barren tract upon the Trent; but have been highly improved by warping. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bottesford, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £650. * Patron, alternately the Bishop of Lincoln and the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a neat structure, with a tower; and was partly rebuilt in 1818, at a cost of nearly £2,000. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Wethodists, a reading-room and library, and a recently erected national school.

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