Description
Grayingham, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the Wolds, near Ermine Street, 2 miles S from Rirton-in-Lindsey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 10 NE by E from Gainsborough. It has a post office under Rirton-in-Lindsey (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Rirton-in-Lindsey. Acreage, 1726; population, 158. The manor belongs to Sir John Henry Thorold, Bart., D.L., J.P. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £343 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church, which is a building of stone in the Early English style, was rebuilt (with the exception of the tower) in 1773. It was again restored in 1870 and a vestry added.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
