Alvingham
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009) |
Coordinates: 53°24′01″N 0°02′57″E / 53.400392°N 0.049266°E
| Alvingham | |
 St Adelwold church with neighbouring (defunct) St Mary's Church (North Cockerington) in the background, next to the Louth Canal |
|
 Alvingham
Alvingham shown within Lincolnshire |
|
| Population | (2001 census) |
|---|---|
| District | East Lindsey |
| Shire county | Lincolnshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LOUTH |
| Postcode district | LN11 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Louth and Horncastle |
| List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire | |
Alvingham is a village that lies on a small back road leading east out of Louth, Lincolnshire, England.
Contents |
[edit] Geography
In the west of the parish, it borders Keddington. The parish boundary meets Brackenborough with Little Grimsby, east of Brackenborough Wood. Passing northwards, it meets Yarburgh, and crosses the Alvingham-Yarburgh road near Newholme. It follows Black Dike in a north-east direction, north of America Farm. Where it crosses the north-south Louth Canal, it briefly meets Grainthorpe.
On Alvingham Fen it meets Conisholme and the Seven Towns North Eau, a one of the constituents of the River Lud as it approaches the coast. Directly to the east is a large wind farm on Conisholme Fen. The boundary follows the Seven Towns North Eau southwards, to the west of Nunnitts Farm (outside the parish). It meets North Cockerington at the point the Seven Towns North Eau, Seven Towns South Eau, and Old Eau meet to form the River Lud. The river (and parish boundary) runs parallel, to the south, to the Louth Canal.
[edit] History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aluingeham, and its name means "Homestead of the Ælfingas (the tribe of Ælf)".[1] It was the location of a Gilbertine Alvingham Priory until the dissolution of the monasteries.
[edit] Two churches
Notably, the village has two churches in the same churchyard, one dedicated to St. Mary and now redundant, the other the only church in England to be dedicated to St. Adelwold.
St Adelwold (Alvingham with Yarburgh and North Cockerington) is in the Mid Marsh group of churches with Great Carlton, South Cockerington, and Grimoldby, and based in Grimoldby. The religious parish is bigger than the civil parish, as it includes North Cockerington, a civil parish.
[edit] Amenities
The village has a Women's Institute[2] and a Farm Shop.[3]
[edit] Former residents
[edit] References
- ^ A.D.Mills, "Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names" (2nd Edition), p. 9, OUP, 1997
- ^ Village website
- ^ Good Food TV Channel
[edit] External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alvingham |
[edit] News items
|
|||||||||||
