ALVINGHAM, a parish in the Marsh division of
the hundred of LOUTH-ESKE, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 4 miles (N. E.) from Louth, containing 264
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that
of Cockerington St. Mary annexed, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £1000 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln.
The church is dedicated to St. Adelwold. A priory
of Gilbertine nuns and canons, dedicated to the
Virgin Mary and St. Adelwold, was founded here in the
reign of Henry II., which at the dissolution was valued
at £141. 15. per annum.