FOSTON, a parish in the wapentake of LOVEDEN,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 5 miles (N.W,
by N.) from Grantham, containing 426 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage
of Long Bennington, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Sir
Thomas Manners Sutton,. Knt., a baron of the exchequer,
was elevated to the peerage by the title of
Baron Manners of Foston, in the county of Lincoln, on
the 20th of April, 1807, on being appointed Lord Chancellor
of Ireland.