HAUGHAM, a parish in the Wold division of the
hundred of LOUTH-ESKE, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 3 miles (S.) from Louth, containing 100 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, now
sequestrated, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in.the king's books at £8. 1. 8,, and endowed
with £400 royal bounty. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, has fallen to ruins. Here was an Alien priory,
a cell to the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary San Sever!
in France, valued at the suppression at twelve marks
per annum, and settled upon the Carthusian priory of
St. Ann, near Coventry. An intermittent spring, probably
connected with some subterraneous reservoir, flows
from the side of a hill called Skirbeck, in this parish.