The village is listed in the 1086
Domesday Book with 48 households, which for the time was considered very large. The
Lord of the Manor was
Ivo Tallboys. Miningsby church was dedicated to
St Andrew, but was declared redundant by the
Diocese of Lincoln on 22 October 1975 and demolished on 14 November 1979, although the churchyard has been retained. An
Anglo-Saxon knotwork stone, which had formerly been in St Andrew's
chancel, is now in the City and County Museum, Lincoln.
1969 air incident On Wednesday 9 July 1969 at 2.20pm, there was the first loss of an RAF
Phantom aircraft, 'XV395'. The navigator was Flight Lieutenant Forbes MacCombie Pearson and the pilot was Flight Lieutenant John Edward Room, later the station commander of
RAF Leeming in 1988. The aircrew were taken to
RAF Hospital Nocton Hall for an X-ray. The Lindsey Fire Brigade attended from Horncastle. Maurice Gorensweigh, a Polish former
RAF Bomber Command Lancaster pilot was 30 yards away in his kitchen, and saw the Phantom hit the ground. Flt Lt Pearson was from
Abriachan south of
Inverness; he had married Barbara Joan Scargill, from 49 Parkside in
Wollaton,
Nottinghamshire, on 21 December 1963, at
RAF Nicosia. ==References==