Alvingham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Lincolnshire, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, L ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. It is situated north-east from the

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...

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History

The village is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086 as "Aluingeham", meaning "Homestead of the Ælfingas (the tribe of

Ælf An elf (: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic peoples, Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in Norse mythology, North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic ''Poetic Edda'' and the ''Prose Edda'' ...

)". It was the location of a

Gilbertine The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest. It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at th ...

Alvingham Priory until the dissolution of the monasteries. In the pre-Norman period, as the Lincolnshire coastline grew further into what had previously been tidal salt marsh, people from Alvingham settled the nearby village of Conisholme. The 16th-century poet and translator Barnabe Googe inherited lands of the former Alvingham Priory after his father's death. Alvingham Mill is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Geography

In the west of the parish, the village borders Keddington. The parish boundary meets Brackenborough with Little Grimsby, east of Brackenborough Wood. Passing northwards, it meets

Yarburgh Yarburgh is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and situated approximately north-east from the town of Louth. The name 'Yarburgh' means 'fortification made of earth'. St John the Baptist's Chur ...

, 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 Grainthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east from the town of Louth, and approximately from the Lincolnshire coast. The civil parish includes the hamlets of W ...

. On Alvingham Fen it meets

Conisholme __NOTOC__ Conisholme is a small settlement and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is on the Cleethorpes to Mablethorpe A1031 road, and north-east from Louth. The population is included in the civil parish of ...

and the Seven Towns North Eau, one of the constituents of the

River Lud The Louth Navigation was a canalisation of the River Lud. It ran for from Louth in Lincolnshire, England, to Tetney Haven, at the mouth of the Humber. It was authorised by act of Parliament in 1763 and completed in 1770, under the superv ...

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

. The river (and parish boundary) runs parallel, to the south, to the Louth Canal.

Community

The village is noted for containing two churches in the same churchyard. One, the now redundant St Mary's was previously the church of the neighbouring parish of North Cockerington, and is now under the care of the

Churches Conservation Trust The Churches Conservation Trust is a registered charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk in England. The charity cares for over 350 churches of architectural, cultural and historic significance, which have been transferred in ...

. The other, Alvingham's parish church of St Adelwold's, was restored in 1933 after being unused for most of the 19th century. St. Adelwold's was built on the foundations of an earlier Saxon church and is the only British church dedicated to the Saxon Saint Adelwold. St Adelwold (Alvingham with Yarburgh and North Cockerington) is in the Mid Marsh group of churches with

Great Carlton Great Carlton is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 136. It is situated southeast from the market town of Louth, Lincolnshire. Great Carl ...

, South Cockerington, and Grimoldby, and based in Grimoldby. The religious parish is larger than the civil parish, as it includes North Cockerington, a civil parish. The village has a Women's Institute and a farm shop. Alvingham Village Hall holds events for the village and the wider local area, including an 'Open Mic' night for musical talent.

Gallery

File:Alvingham lock.JPG, Remains of a

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File:The Louth Canal from Highbridge - geograph.org.uk - 953188.jpg, Louth Canal File:Alvingham Mill - geograph.org.uk - 191462.jpg, Alvingham Mill File:St Adelwold, Alvingham - geograph.org.uk - 423027.jpg, St Adelwold

References

External links

Parish council

Mid Marsh group
* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District