The following extract is from "History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire by William White 1882"

FULSTOW is a scattered village, 8 miles N. of Louth, about 2 miles E. of North Thoresby railway station, and l ½ miles from Ludborough railway station.
Its parish is in the Parts of Lindsey, Louth union and county court district, Bradley Haverstoe wapentake, Louth Eske No. 1 rural deanery, Stow arch-deaconry, Grimsby petty sessional division, and Covenham polling district of Northern Lincolnshire.
Its rateable value is £4236 in 1881 it contained 606 inhabitants, and 2840 acres of land. It is called Fugeistow in the Domesday Book. J. B. Stanhope and George Marmaduke Alington, Esqrs:, are joint lords of the manor. The principal landowners are John Bourn, Charles Campion, Alfred Campion, Bryan Motley, Thomas Motley and John Popliss, Esqrs., and Mrs. Allenby. The CHURCH (St. Lawrence) has neither aisles nor tower, but has formerly had both, and contains the efigies of a knight and lady of the time of the Crusades. It is a small stone fabric,with accommodation for l60 worshippers, and was thoroughly restored and furnished, with open benches, in 1888, at a cost of about £500, raised by subscription. The benefice is a vicarage valued in K.B. at £8 l0s. 3d, and now at £230 per annnm, in the gift of the Trustees of the late H. R. Allenby, Esq., who are also the impropriators. It is in the incumbency of the Rev AIexander Johnson, who has a commodious residence, built in1861, at an expense of £760 of which £600 was borrowed from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, the remainder being defrayed by the Rev. C. Alex. Bourne, a late vicar, A National school was built here in 1866, at an outlay of £250, raised by voluntary efforts. In lieu of tithes 230 acres of land have been allotted to the lay rector, and 102 acres to the vicar. The parish abounds in overflowing springs, and its eastern side is skirted by the Louth Navigation, where there is a hamlet clled Fire Beacon, partly in this and Marsh Chapel parishes. At the enclosure of the Commons. in 1819 4A. 3R. 22P. of land called the Bull Meadow, was allotted to the overseers of the poor, and the £8 18s is carried to the parish rates. Near the church is an artificial mound, supposed to have been a fort or watchtower. The ancient family of Marmion had estates here. In 1630, no fewer than 118 persons who had died of the sweating sickness, were buried here. The church tower fell down many years ago. In the village are three small chapels, belonging to Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists and the Free Methodists. POST and MONEY ORDER OFFICE and SAVINGS BANK Mr. John G. Phillips`.Letters via Louth arrive at 9.40 a.m.~ and depart at 3:26 p.m. .