Burringham Local History Pack

• The name
• The place
• Population history
• Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900.
• Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library.
• References in the Star Newspaper Index.

The name

The meaning of Burringham's name is disputed with Mills believing it to mean 'homestead of the dwellers on the stream' and Cameron suggesting 'homestead, estate of the Burgredinga or the Burgricingas'.

More information can be found in:

• Cameron, Keith. The Place-Names of Lincolnshire.
• Eminson, T.B.F. Place and River Names of the West Riding of Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
• Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.

The place

Burringham is a small village on the east bank of the River Trent five miles from Crowle. Population increases in 1841 and 1861 can be attributed to the presence of persons employed in the construction of a brick and tile yard in 1841 and the railway in 1861.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

BURRINGHAM is a township and large village in the parish of Bottesford, formed with Gunhouse into an ecclesicatical parish, Oct. 15, 1861, and is on the east bank of the river Trent, across which is a ferry connecting the road from Doncaster with that to Brigg; there is a station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S. and L.) railway, 1 mile from the village, 168 miles by road from London and 5 east-south-east from Crowle, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division of Manley wapentake, union of Glanford Brigg, county court district of Brigg, petty sessional division of Scunthorpe, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1857, is an edifice of red brick, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a low western tower with turret containing one bell: three of the windows are stained: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1857. The living, united with Gunhouse, was declared a rectory May 11th, 1866; joint net yearly value £327, including one acre of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Johnson Fowell Swan B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who resides at Gunhouse. Here is a Weslyan chapel, built in 1863, and Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1836. The Temperance Hall was built in1891, and there is a reading room and library with about 500 volumes of books, which is managed by a committee. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers pass the village daily. Edward Peacock Esq. of Dunstan House, Kirton Lindsey, who is lord of the manor, John and David Stubley esqrs. of Batley, York's; Alexander Aitken Spilman, Arthur Foster, George Bletcher, Robert Hayton and - Fowler esqrs. are the principal landowners. The soil is alluvial; subsoil warp. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area is 1,553 acres of land, 55 of tidal water and 23 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,385; the population in 1891 was 565 in the township, and 707 in the ecclesiastical parish of Gunhouse-cum-Burringham.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Gordon Clark, W. Burringham - where everyone greets you. Scunthorpe Star, 6.7.1979.
• Scott, P.L.. Burringham, a pictorial history. 1994.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• River Trent - Steam Packet boat frozen into ice LLS 24.02. 1900 4d.
• School closed due to measles LLS 20.04. 1907 5b.
• Three cottages sold in Main Street for £30 SFS 26.06. 1937 8e.
• Families evacuated as River Trent floods SFS 29.03. 1947 12c.
• Jet crashes into nearby field SFS 06.07. 1956 1b.