Winteringham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Winteringham, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the Humber, 7 miles W of Barton-upon-Humber station, and 6 N of Appleby station on the M.S. & L.R. The village has a post and money order office under Doncaster; telegraph office, Winterton. It had formerly a corporation and a market, and has now a fair on 14 July, under a charter of King John, and wharves. Acreage of parish, 3588; population, 584. There is a parish council of eight members. A chalybeate spring is in the village, and the Roman town Ad Abum is supposed to have stood half a mile to the E. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £470 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is Norman, Early English, and good. There are Wes-leyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a temperance hall.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Winteringham All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Glandford-Brigg | |
Wapentake | Manley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Winteringham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1563-1911 | 1653-1823 | 1563-1911 | 1562-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Winteringham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winteringham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Winteringham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: