The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District and covers just over 1,500 acres.

Lissington, a parish in Caistor district, Lincoln; on a small tributary of the river Witham, 2 miles NE of Wickenby r. station, and 4 NNW of Wragby. Posttown, Wragby. Acres, 1,526. Real property, £2,258. Pop., 245. Houses, 50. The manor belongs toTurnor, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £365.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Lissington, par., Lincolnshire, 4 miles NW. of Wragby, 1526 ac., pop. 259; P.O.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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