WINTERTON is a parish and small market town, giving title to a petty sessional division, in the Northern division of the county, parts of Lindsey, the northern division of Manley wapentake, Glanford Brigg union, Barton-upon-Humber county district, rural deanery of Manlake archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, distant 2 1/2 miles south of the Humber, 2 west from the river Ancholme, 4 north from Appleby station, 8 west-south-west of Barton, and 10 north-north-west of Brigg. The town is lighted with gas, and amply supplied with water, and governed by a local board of health. The church of All Saints is a handsome and spacious building in good repair, with a tower and 5 bells ; the lower part of the tower is of Norman architecture, and the remainder of the building is in the Early English style : the interior consists of chancel, nave, aisles and transepts : some of the windows are filled with stained glass : over the communion table there is a painting of the "Holy Family :" there is an organ, built by Nicholson of Lincoln. The register dates from about 1558. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £212 with residence, in a gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held by the Rev. Edward Synge Wilson. A National school, to hold about 180 children, was built in 1841, on the north side of the church, at a cost of £400, raised by subscription : a Wesleyan day school was erected in 1850. There are chapels for the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists ; in the former is an organ by Nicholson, of Lincoln. The police station is a commodious building, with hall for the petty sessions. Fairs for cattle are held here, one on the Tuesday before Palm Sunday, another on the 23rd of September, and a statute fair on the 9th May. The feast is held on the 6th of July, and a corn market every Wednesday. Petty sessions are held here on the first and third Fridays of every month. Agricultural implement and machine making is carried on here, and stone is quarried, which is used for plaster and cement. Here is a Temperance Hall. A plot of land, nearly 3 acres, which lets for £13 a year, is appropriated for the repairs of the church. A cemetery has been formed east of the town, about three acres in extent, part of which remains unconsecrated. Richard Beck left two yearly rent-charges out of the water-mill at Barrow, £3 3s. for educating poor children, and £2 for the sick poor of this parish. Winterton was evidently occupied by the Romans, for in 1747 several beautiful tesselated pavements were discovered, as well as urns and other Roman antiquities, on the Cliff farm, the property of M. W. Clarke, esq., who resides at the Hall, where there is a museum of antiquities. The great Roman road, Ermine Street, passes through this parish. Messrs. Slater are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late W. H. Driffill, esq., John Dent Dent, esq., and Joseph Popple, esq. The soil is loam, peat and sand ; subsoil, oolite and lias. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,628 acres ; rateable value, £7,790 ; and the population in 1871 was 1,756.
Parish Clerk, Robert Nassau.
POST, MONEY ORDERS & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office. - Miss Charlotte Frow, sub-postmistress. Letters from Brigg by mail cart, arrive at 9.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 4 p.m. There is not a delivery or dispatch of letters in sundays, but the letter-box is open as on other days. Money orders are granted & paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.
COUNTY MAGISTRATES attending petty sessions (Winterton division)
Rev. C. Sheffield, chairman.
Sir R. Sheffield.
Rowland Winn, esq. M.P.
Rev. J. E. Cross.
Rev. C. Knowles.
Edward Peacock, esq.
J. Goulton-Constable, esq.
Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Freer.
The places in the division are : - Alkborough, Appleby, Ashby, Bottesford, Burringham, Burton-upon-Stather, East Butterwick, Brumby, Crosby, Flixborough, Frodingham, Gunhouse, West Halton, Holme, Manton, Messingham, Raventhorpe, Roxby-with-Risby, Scunthorpe, Twigmoor, Whitton, Winteringham, Winterton and Yaddlethorpe.
INSURANCE AGENTS : -
Britannia Fire, J. Browton.
Briton Life, J. Browton.
Crown Life, H. Naylor.
European Life, H. Smith.
Liverpool & London & Globe Fire, H. Smith.
Royal Farmers', G. Robinson.
Scottish Widows' Fund, Hett, Freer & Hett.
Sovereign Life, R. Drinkall.
Star Life, J. Browton.
Yorkshire Fire & Life, C. Cross.
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS : -
Local Board of Health & Burial Board, Henry Liversidge, solicitor, clerk.
Inland Revenue Office, Cross Keys, Charles Dow, officer.
Temperance Hall.
County Police Station, Joseph Wells, superintendent.
Registrar of Births & Deaths, Lucas M. Bennett.
SCHOOLS : -
National, Geo. Mann, master ; Eleanor Mann, mistress.
Wesleyan, John Browton, master.
CONVEYANCE : -
APPLEBY - Mail cart, daily, sunday excepted ; W. Foster, to meet the 10.30 a.m. train.
BROUGHTON - Mail cart, daily, sunday excepted.
CARRIERS TO : -
ALKBOROUGH - George Tock, daily.
BARTON - James Sewell, mon. ; Thomas Smith, mon.
BRIGG - William Foster & William Smith, mon. tues. thurs. & sat. ; mail cart, daily, sunday excepted.
BURTON-UPON-STATHER - Henry Clayton, thurs.
FLIXBOROUGH - George Hill, wed.
HULL - James Sewell, mon. tues. wed. fri. & sat. ; Thomas Smith, tues. wed. fri. & sat.
WHITTON - George Tock, daily.
WEST HALTON - George Tock, daily.
WINTERINGHAM - Mail cart, daily, sunday excepted.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Beacock, Matthew.
Beacock, Mrs. Henry.
Bennett, Lucas Marshall.
Brown, Mrs.
Burkill, Joseph, Northlands house.
Bush, Miss.
Clarke. Michl. Wrangles, Winterton hall.
Crust, Edward.
Fowler, Joseph.
Goodworth, Roger Portington.
Hall, Miss.
Hall, Samuel.
Leake, Misses.
Liversidge, Henry.
Marris, Miss.
Pizey, Rev. Patrick [Wesleyan].
Popple, Joseph, Gilby house.
Sadler, Joseph.
Sawyer, Thomas.
Smith, Rev. John G. [Primitive].
Stanewell, Mrs.
Stubbs, William.
Walker, Mrs.
Wells, William.
Wilson, Rev. Edward Synge [vicar].
This extract provides a description and history of Winterton. It has been transcribed directly from the original directory.