DUNSTON, a parish in the second division of the wapentake of LANGOE, parts of KESTEYEN, county of LINCOLN, 8 miles (S.E.) from Lincoln, containing 406 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 0. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Here was an hospital for lepers in the reign of Henry III. Dunston pillar, a pyramidal shaft ninety-two feet high, crowned with a gallery and lantern, was erected in 1751, by F. Dashwood, Esq., as a land-mark to guide the traveller over the then surrounding waste, which has been since enclosed.