LUDFORD (MAGNA), a parish in the eastern division
of the wapentake of WRAGGOE, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (E.) from Market-Rasen,
containing 426 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £5. 18. 4., endowed with
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of G. R.
Heneage, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Roman coins have been discovered in the neighbourhood.