ORMSBY (NORTH), a parish in the wapentake of
LUDBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN,
6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Louth, containing 111 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £3, endowed with £600 royal bounty. The
Misses E. and S. Ansell were patronesses in 1813. The
church is dedicated to St. Helen. A monastery, for
nuns and brethren of the Sempringham order, was
founded here in the time of Stephen, by William Earl
of Albemarle, and Gilbert, son of Robert de Ormesbv
it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, arid its
revenue was valued at the dissolution at £80.