LIMBER (MAGNA), a parish in the eastern division
of the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 5 miles (N. by E.) from
Caistor, containing 421 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9 18. 4., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church, which is dedicated
to St. Peter, was given, in the time of Henry II.,
by Richard de Humet, constable of Normandy, to the Cistercian
abbey of Aulnay, or Aveny, in Normandy, the
abbot and convent of which established a cell here; this
cell, at the suppression of Alien priories, was sold to
the Carthusians of St. Anne, near Coventry. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.