RUSKINGTON, a parish in the wapentake of FLAXWELL, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Sleaford, containing 678 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £3. 17. S., endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Lady Hodgson, in 1719, bequeathed a rent-charge of £42. 16., in support of three aged women, and a school for ten children, with a fund for apprenticing them. There is also a trifling annuity left by Martha Chamberlain, in 1702, for educating children.