Skillington, Lincolnshire

Description
Skillington, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles SW by S of Great Ponton station on the G.N.R. main line, and 7 1/2 S by W of Grantham. It has a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Buckminster. Acreage, 2240; population, 369. The parish council consists of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart and the Cholmeley family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £120 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, but with some Norman remains, consisting of chancel, nave, Lady chapel containing a double piscina, aisles, S porch, and a tower surmounted by an octagonal broach spire. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Sir Isaac Newton was a pupil in a dame school here.