ELKINGTON (NORTH), a parish in the Wold division
of the hundred of LOUTH-ESKE, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (N.tV.) from Louth,
containing 74 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £4. 19 4., and endowed
with £600 royal bounty. The Rev. William Smyth,
Jun. was patron in 1818. The church is dedicated to
St. Helen.