The village is sometimes known as Lavington, and the name may have come from the Old English Lâfa, and the characteristic suffix -ton.[3] The village is listed in the Domesday Book as "Lavintone".[4]
The ecclesiastical parish is part of the North Beltisloe Group of parishes[7] in the Deanery of Beltisloe in the Diocese of Lincoln.[8] From 2006 to 2011 the incumbent was The Revd Richard Ireson,[9] who was succeeded by The Revd Mike Doyle in 2012.[10]
The village erected a new Lychgate to mark the Millennium.[6] A previous exhibition to raise funds for the church, The Host of Angels Experience, returned in 2012.[6][10]
The village is the burial place of the first and second baronets both called Sir William Armyne. They were both leading puritans in Lincolnshire and supporters of the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War.