The name
Spelt Chernitone at the time of the Doomsday Book, the meaning of Kirmingtons name as suggested by Mills is, 'estate associated with a man called Cynehere'.
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.
The place
The village of Kirmington is seven miles north of Caistor and seven miles north east of Brigg. To the east of Kirmington is the site of a Roman settlement and large quantities of Romano-British pottery have shown that occupation continued up until the fourth century. The settlement extends over 20 hectares indicating that the site must have been of some importance.
Construction of Kirmington Airfield began in the early part of World War Two for No 1 Group, Bomber Command. It was a standard pattern heavy bomber airfield with three concrete runways and dispersed accommodation and in 1943 became the home of 166 Squadron. The airfield closed in December 1945 and in February 1946 the airfield was put on a 'Care and Maintenance' basis. In 1970 Lindsey Council brought the airfield for £85,000 with the intention of developing the site into a regional airport. The airport was opened in March 1974 a few days before changes in local government boundaries meant that it came under the control of the newly formed Humberside County Council. Today Humberside International Airport has flights to various destinations around the world including Amsterdam, Corfu, Ibiza and Turkey.
Population history
| Year |
Population |
|
1801 |
203 |
|
1811 |
200 |
|
1821 |
243 |
|
1831 |
310 |
|
1841 |
367 |
|
1851 |
379 |
|
1861 |
405 |
|
1871 |
419 |
|
1881 |
401 |
|
1891 |
427 |
|
1901 |
420 |
|
1911 |
1601 |
|
1921 |
1651 |
|
1931 |
1601 |
|
1941 |
N/A |
|
1951 |
2214 |
|
1961 |
2553 |
|
1971 |
2741 |
|
1981 |
2456 |
|
1991 |
2773 |
Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
Kirmington is a small agricultural parish, in a fertile vale, 3 ½ miles north - east from Barnetby station, 3 ¾ south - west from Brocklesby station and 4 south - west from Haborough station, all on the main line of the Great Central (late M. S. and L.) railway, and 7 north from Caistor, 7 north - east from Brigg, 12 west from Grimsby, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division of Yarborough wapentake, Glanford Brigg union, Brigg petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Yarborough No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Helen is a building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry and a tower of the 12th century, to which, in 1838, a wooden spire covered with copper was added, at the cost of the first Earl of Yarborough; it contains one bell and a clock given by Mrs. C.C. Barnard, wife of a former vicar: an organ was built in 1880 at a cost of £175: the windows in the aisle are stained: the font, the west window, representing St. Helen, and one of the windows in the south aisle were given by the Rev. R.C. Brackenbury, then vicar: the church was restored in 1859, under the direction of S.S. Teulon esq. architect, at a cost of £800, defrayed by William Hudson esq.; both aisles were then rebuilt, the nave new roofed, the tower arch opened and a vestry added: the spire was restored in 1895, at a cost of £100: there are 220 sittings. The register dates from the year 1698. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Brocklesby, joint yearly value £395, including 134 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Yarborough, and held since 1869 by the Rev. John Henry Johnson B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The rectory house was built in 1846, at a cost of over £2,000. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. In 1888 almshouses for four inmates were erected at a cost of £800 by the Earl of Yarborough P.C. lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is generally free; subsoil, chalk and gravel, usually farmed in a four - field system. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,904 acres; rateable value, £2,490; the population in 1891 was 427.
Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library
- Barnetby W.E.A. Aspects of Barnetby le Wold 1766 - 1901. With references to Melton Ross and Kirmington 1983.
- Russell, E and R Landscape changes of South Humberside 1982.
- Otter, Patrick. Maximum effort; one group at war. 1990.
- Blake, R, Hodgson, M and Taylor, B. The airfields of Lincolnshire since 1912. 1984.
- May, Jeffrey. An ironage spout from Kirmington Lincolnshire. 1971.
- Halpenny, B B. Action stations. [vol 2] Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. 1981.
References in the Star Newspaper Index