LEGBOURN, a parish in the Marsh division of the
hundred of CALCEWORTH, though locally in that of
Louth-Eske, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN,
3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Louth, containing 412 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200
private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary
grant. The Rev. R, Powley was patron in
1800. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A priory
of Cistercian nuns, in honour of the Virgin Mary, was
founded here before the reign of John, by Robert Fitz-
Gilbert: at the dissolution, its revenue, was £57. 13. 5