The name
Referred to as Ludintone in 1086, Luddington translates as 'estate associated with a man called Luda'. Garthorpe in 1086 is known as Gerulftorp and means 'outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Geirulf or Gairulf'.
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
Luddington is located on the east side of the Old River Don around five miles north east of Crowle. Garthorpe is a small township located within Luddington parish two miles west of Burton Stather.
G.T.Andrews of York at the cost of £2,760 built St Oswald Luddington parish church, through subscription between 1854 and 1855. The Catholic chapel was built in the late 1870's by M.E.Hadfield and Son and is dedicated to St Joseph and St Dymphna, the latter being the patron saint of the insane.
Population history
| Year |
Population
Luddington |
Population
Garthorpe |
|
1801 |
4007 |
388 |
|
1811 |
402 |
419 |
|
1821 |
462 |
500 |
|
1831 |
470 |
454 |
|
1841 |
511 |
471 |
|
1851 |
588 |
502 |
|
1861 |
684 |
580 |
|
1871 |
775 |
580 |
|
1881 |
628 |
529 |
|
1891 |
495 |
486 |
|
1901 |
532 |
441 |
|
1911 |
527 |
473 |
|
1921 |
431 |
453 |
|
1931 |
429 |
452 |
|
1941 |
N/A |
N/A |
|
1951 |
425 |
379 |
|
1961 |
414 |
323 |
|
1971 |
379 |
295 |
|
1981 |
351 |
312 |
|
1991 |
360 |
362 |
Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900
LUDDINGTON is a township and pleasant village in the Isle of Axholme separated from Yorkshire by the old river Don, 6 ½ miles north-east from Crowle station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S. and L.) railway, and 10 east-by-south from Goole, in the West Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, west division of Manley wapentake, Epworth petty sessional division, Goole union and county court district, rural deanery of Axholme, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Oswald is a building of stone in the Early English style, erected in 1855, at the cost of £2,760: it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with elegant spire containing 3 bells: the chancel windows are stained; a stained window, a gift of the late Mrs. Sidebottom, of Haxey, was inserted in 1884, and another was placed in 1886 to the late Thomas Dudding: there are 265 sittings. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory and vicarage, net yearly value £414, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Harper, and held since 1871 by the Rev. Edmund Tristam Horatio Harper M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Catholic chapel, built in 1877, is dedicated to St. Joseph & St. Dymphna; the services are conducted by one of the Norbertine fathers of St Norbert's from Crowle. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1857, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, rebuilt in 1893. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers run on the Trent, which is 1-½ miles east, daily, and there is a landing place near here. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor. William Coulman esq. of Eastoft Hall, the trustees of the late Thomas Ross esq. and of the late William Ross esq. with Thomas Bladworth esq. of Whitgift Hall, Goole, are the principal landowners. The soil is rich warp; subsoil, peat and clay. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area of the entire parish is 3,674 acres; of the township 1,641 acres; rateable value, £2,141; the population in 1891 was- of the former, 981; of the latter, 464.
GARTHORPE is a township and village near the river Trent and on the old river Don, 2 miles north-east from Luddington, 6 north from Althorpe station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S. and L.) railway. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers pass on the Trent, over which there is a ferry to Burton-on-Stather. A light railway, now (1900) in course of construction, will pass through this place. The Weslyan chapel was rebuilt 1883 and a Sunday school added in 1888, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in1838 and rebuilt in 1890. Worsop's charity consists of a charge upon property belonging to the trustees of the late Miss Foster, of Doncaster, and amounts to £1.6s yearly. Pockliington's charity is also a charge upon property owned by the same lady, and amounts to £1.4s.yearly; the total amount viz. £2.10s is distributed in bread to the poor of Garthorpe. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Algernon Charles Heber-Percy esq. of Airmyn Hall, Howden, Yorks. The trustees of Mrs. E.M. Goodworth, of Beech House, Winterton, the mortgagees of Mr. Amos Kelsey, Mr. William Hawkins and Mr. Edward Clark Foster, of Waterton Hall. The area of the township is 2,185 acres of land, 180 of tidal water and 71 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,541; the population in 1891 was 518.
Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library
Luddington
- Stonehouse, W.B. The history and topography of the Isle of Axholme. 1839 pp437 - 445.
- Isle of Axholme Family History Society. The Parish Church of St Oswald Luddington, monumental and memorial inscriptions. 1991.
Garthorpe
- Isle of Axholme Family Society. The parish church of St. Mary, Garthorpe,
monumental and memorial inscriptions. 1988.
- Gilleard, Fred. Memories of Garthorpe and Fockerby, part 1. 199-.
- Gilleard, Fred. Garthorpe and Fockerby; an illustrated history. Part 2. 199-.
References in the Star Newspaper Index
- Smock Mill (landmark) destroyed LS 30.05. 1914 5b.
- Plough & Webbs' Hotel (Ale Houses) closed LS 15.01. 1916 6c.
- Isle of Axholme R.D.C. invite tenders for houses SFS 05.10. 1935 6d.
- Oil discovered (crude) in a well SFS 24.12. 1938 12c.
- 1st show and gymkhana SFS 03.08. 1946 9d.
- Garthorpe (Isle of Axholme Family History Society).
- Luddington (Isle of Axholme Family History Society).