CUMBERWORTH, a parish in the Marsh division
of the hundred of CALCEWORTH, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from
Alford, containing 170 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, united in 1733 to the rectory of
Anderby, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £10. 10. 2£., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the .Master and Fellows of Magdalene
College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to
St. Helen.