At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, William the Conqueror bestowed upon Eudo, the son of Spiruwin, the Barony of Tateshale in Lincolnshire (now known as Tattershall).

William also gave him the lands of Hillington, Grimston, Congham and Little Massingham that had belonged to Scula.

In 1807 Sir Charles Mordaunt, the eighth baronet decided to sell the estate of Little Massingham and the advowson of the living to Joseph Wilson of Highbury Hill, Middlesex.

Wilson was a rich and prosperous merchant and although having purchased Little Massingham he never lived there, but chose to use Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk as his country estate.

It was recorded that in the early 19th century thirty or forty acres of wheat were grown in Little Massingham.

On each side of this entrance there are niches which once held the statues of the Virgin and St Andrew, while above it are two lichen-covered stone escutcheons, bearing the arms of the de Thorpes.

The porch is lighted by small perpendicular windows, and around the bottom of the roof runs the inscription, carved in oak:

The pews were replaced in 1857 at the same time the roof was repaired and re-leaded, the floor tiled, the font (which formally stood behind the south door) removed to its present situation.

All the entries, up to the year 1599 were copied from earlier records, in accordance with a canon published in the reign of Elizabeth.

This is a view of the station some thirty years after the trains first ran and a prominent feature is the criss-cross fencing which was found all over the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.