Description
Dunston, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, on a branch of the river Witham, near Duns Dyke, with a station called Nocton and Dunston on the G.N. & G.E. Joint railway, 8 miles SE by S from Lincoln, and a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. Acreage, 3372; population, 652. Much of the land, novi-inclosed and cultivated, was formerly a dismal waste, and a pillar, 92 feet high, close to the public road through it, was erected in 1751 as a landmark. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; yearly value, £222 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
