Waddington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) south of Lincoln on the A607 Grantham Road.

[6] Richard de Soham, a senior judge and Crown official in Ireland, was appointed parish priest of Waddington in 1303, and apparently retired there in 1305.

[7] In 1790 Mary Farmery and Susanna Locker both laid claim to the affections of a young man; this produced a challenge from the former to fight for the prize, which was accepted by the latter.

[8] Around 1830, George Boole, the mathematician, taught at Waddington Academy Boarding School in the village, run by Robert Hall.

[9] Enemy action during 1941 severely damaged 71 houses in the village, as well as the Horse & Jockey pub and the NAAFI building on the RAF station.

The damage was mainly caused by two aerial mines; large bombs dropped by parachute and fused to explode before hitting the ground.

Eleven people were killed, among them the NAAFI manager, Mrs Constance Raven,[10] after whom the All-Ranks Club on the RAF station is still named.

[citation needed] The village 12th-century St Michael and All Angels church was rebuilt in 1721[11] and destroyed in a Second World War air raid on the night of 8 May 1941.

[12] It was replaced by the present-day Anglican parish church of St Michael on High Street, a modern stone building consecrated in 1954.

[15] Waddington's cliff-top position means it is 226 ft (69 m) above sea level, giving it commanding views over the River Witham valley.

RAF Waddington is now home to 13 Sqn who operate the MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Air Vehicles (RPAS), although the aircraft are not physically based there.

Owing to Waddington's inland position, far from the landfall of most Atlantic depressions, it is one of the driest places to live in the UK, receiving, on average, less than 3 ft (910 mm) of rain per year.