Alvingham, Lincolnshire

Description
Alvingham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, in the vale of the river Lud and on the Louth Canal, 3 1/4 miles NE of Louth station on the G.N.R., with a post office under Louth. Acreage, 1794; population of the civil parish, 251; of the ecclesiastical, 477. A Gilbertine priory stood here, dedicated to the Virgin and St Adelwold, and was given at the dissolution to the Clintons. The chapel of this priory still remains and serves as a church for North Cockerington. The living is a vicarage, united with Cockerington, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net yearly value, about £350 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style. There are also Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.