Description
Willoughton, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 2 1/2 miles SE of Northorpe station on the G.N.R., and 3 S by W of Kirton Lindsey. It has a post and money order office under Lincoln; telegraph office, Kirton Lindsey. Acreage, 2799; population, 457. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, alternately King's College, Cambridge, and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is a plain building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored 1888-89. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
