Please visit the nearby World Ploughing cache. Well worth a visit to the cairn
Wispington does feature in the 1086 Domesday Book and is listed as Wispinctune, held by the Bishop of Durham and Eudo FitzSpirwic with no listings of mills etc.
It possibly gets its name from Old English and when translated means “farmstead where brushwood grows”
The former parish church is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Saint Margaret and was built in 1863 by John Atkinson of York and consists of a western tower, nave, chancel, south porch and vestry. It is constructed of grey sandstone.
In the interior, the font, pulpit and a relief of St Margaret were all carved in stone by the vicar, Rev Charles Pratt Terrot.
The church was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in 1975, and is now closed.
The cache is hidden at N53 13. ABC W000 11.DEF
Frank Gaunt Died December 2 19(B-1)A aged F7
John Nunday's Wife Elizabeth, Died May 1C 1910 aged DE
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