Winteringham
This village and parish is in the far north of Lincolnshire, bordered on the north by the River Humber and in the south by Winterton parish. The parish covers about 3,970 acres of land.
The village is easy to reach. If you are planning a visit:
- From the A15 trunk road, where it crosses Barton-upon-Humber, take the A1077 west about seven miles to Winteringham.
- Alternately, one could just drive north on Ermine Street to Winteringham.
- Near the village is an ancient Chalebeate spring with reputed medicinal qualities.
- Check out our touring page.
- The village has its own website. The site has some Genealogical data, as well.
- The parish was in the Winterton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known (provided by Kieth Dorey):
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 649 |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 2117 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2400 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3431 |
| 1881 |
R.G. 11 / 3286 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2627 |
| 1901 |
R.G. 13 / 3104 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The church seats 350.
- There is a photograph of All Saints Church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, taken by Paul FENWICK.
- Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- Parish registers exist from 1627, although entries back to 1562 appear in the Bishop's transcripts.
- Syd Beacroft has offered to do lookups in the parish register for researchers. Contact him at: Syd Beacroft.
- Check the Manlake Deanery to see existing Marriage Indexes.
- A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1891 and a Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1837. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Winterton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
- Queen Etheldreda landed here after crossing the Humber when she fled her second husband, King Egfrid.
- A half mile east of the village of Winteringham is the site of the Roman town of Ad Abum.
- Ermine Street, the great Roman Road, ended here at a ferry across the Humber.
- In older times, a pleasure faire was held each July 14th.
- The parish had a Temperance Hall built in 1882.
- The National Grid Reference for the village is SE 9222.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- There is a War Memorial standing in Winteringham, dedicated in 1920.
- David WRIGHT has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
- The War Memorial is a grade II listed structure with British Heritage
- During World War II the people of Winteringham "adopted" the destroyer "HMS Vanity."
For a photograph of the Winteringham War Memorial and the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.
The name Winteringham is from the Old English Wintra+inga+ham, or "Homestead of the followers of Wintra". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village name is little-changed, given as Wintringeham.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- The surname BURKHILL appears often in the parish.
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Manley Wapentake in the Glanford division in the parts of Lindsey.
- District governance is currently provided by the North Lincolnshire Council.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
678 |
| 1831 |
726 |
| 1841 |
694 |
| 1871 |
779 |
| 1881 |
671 |
| 1901 |
595 |
| 1971 |
867 |
| 2001 |
989 |
- A National School was built here in 1845 to hold 143 children. In 1900, the attendance was 79. The school has since closed.
- David WRIGHT has a photograph of the old school on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
- The local genealogical society is the Scunthorpe Family History Society, 11, Stainton Drive, Scunthorpe, North Lincs. DN17 2SF.
Last updated on 29-January-2013
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