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Luddington, a pleasant village, on the east side of the old river Don, 5 miles N.E. of Crowle, has in its township 511 inhabitants, and 1884 acres of land, extending eastwards to the Trent, and having formerly a thin moorish soil, but now a rich alluvial loam, having been greatly improved by warping, during the present century. Its parish also includes Garthorpe township. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to the Reynolds, Coulman, Richardson, Lightfoot, Bennett and other families. The Church (St. Oswald) is an ancient fabric, and the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8,and now at £383, is endowed with part of the Rectory, which is partly in the impropriation of the Earl of Beverly, and Messrs. Stavely and Preston. James Lister, Esq., is the patron, and the Rev. Jas. Stovin Lister is the incumbent. The tithes were commuted for allotments of land and corn rents at the enclosure of the parish in 1803. the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here, the former built in 1837, and the latter in 1841. The poor parishioners have £2.10s. per annum, left by Jonathan Worsop, for weekly doles of bread; and 7s. a year left by one Skerne, for distribution of coals or money. They had formerly 65 pecks of barley and 2s. 1d. in money, charged yearly in the rectorial tithes, by Wm. Lister, Mrs Conyer, and other donors; and also 6s. 8d. yearly from land at Eastoft, left by Mr. John Gylyot, but these charities have not been paid for many years.
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