ALVINGHAM, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; on the Louth canal, 3¼ miles NE of Louth r. station. Post Town, Louth. Acres, 1,940. Real property, £2,802. Pop., 350. Houses, 74. The property is much subdivided. A Gilbertine priory stood here, dedicated to the Virgin and St. Adelwold; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Clintons.; The living is a vicarage, united with Cockerington, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £170.* Patron, the Bishop of L. The church is ancient. There are three Methodist chapels.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))