[2] It is situated on the lower slopes of Lincoln Cliff limestone escarpment where the River Witham breaks through it.

Washingborough is the point on the River Witham at which the Lincolnshire Fens begin and it can be argued that the village is the most northerly to be located within the region.

[6] A dig involving Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team, on a site adjacent to the modern canalised course of the River Witham, found evidence of an important late Iron Age settlement of around 1000 BC.

Much of the settlement site was destroyed when the river was canalised in the 18th century as part of the effort to drain the Fens.

The line closed to freight traffic in the 1970s and is now a trail called the "Water Rail Way" between Lincoln and Woodhall Junction.

[11] The village has two public houses, the Ferryboat on High Street and the Hunters Leap on Oak Hill,[12] a Chinese and a pizza takeaway, fish and chip shop, supermarket and post office with chemists.