WINTERTON is a small market town and parish, giving title to a petty sessional division, 2 1/2 miles south from the Humber, 2 west from the river Ancholme, 4 1/2 north from Appleby station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M. S. and L.) railway, 8 west-south-west from Barton and 10 north-north-west of Brigg, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of Manley wapentake, Glanford Brigg union, Barton-upon-Humber county district, rural deanery of Manlake archdeaconry of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln. The town, which was from 1863 controlled by a Local Board, is now governed by an Urban District Council of 12 members, formed under the provisions of the "Local Government Act of 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), and is lighted with gas by a company, and amply supplied with water from pumps. The great Roman road, Ermine Street, joining London, Lincoln and York, passes through this parish. The church of All Saints is a handsome and spacious building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber on the north side, transept, nave of three bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a western tower containing a clock and 6 bells, 5 cast in 1734, by Daniel Hedderly, and one in 1898, by Taylor, of Loughborough : some of the windows are filled with modern stained glass : over the communion table there is a painting of the "Holy Family," by Raphael Mengs, presented by Lady Boynton : in the floor of the chancel is a slab which has lost some of its brasses, to John Rudd, merchant of the Staple at Calais, ob. 1504 : in the chancel is a bas-relief of the arms of Peter Gering, ob. 1590 : a grave slab of the Anglo-Saxon period now serves as the lintel of the tower doorway : the chancel retains piscina and aumbry : the church was restored during the period 1876-90, at a cost of £514, and affords 465 sittings : the base and shaft of the old churchyard cross remain near the south porch : in the churchyard is also a gravestone, inscribed to William Teanby, who kept school in the church : he cut the inscription himself, and used the stone as a table, while his coffin served for a cupboard ; the inscription is a curious mixture of Latin and English, and begins, "Prope Infra the turf lies the sordid atoms of Alice, the wife of William Teanby, who died in June, 1756, in the 31st year of her age" ; it ends with the record of his own death in 1810 at the age of 97, added by a friend. The register dates from about 1558, the earlier have been copied and the rest carefully indexed by the late vicar. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £186, including 72 acres of glebe, with residence in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Charles Henry Gibbons. The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1877, at a cost of about £3,000, and contains an organ : the old chapel, erected in 1837, is now disused. A Lecture Hall was added in 1892, at a cost of £600. The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in1879, at a cost of about £1,500, and has attached a Sunday school built at a cost of £200. A Cemetery of about 3 acres in extent, with mortuary chapel and a house for the keeper, was formed in 1876, at a cost of £2,000, and is under the control of a burial board of 9 members. Jonathan Dent, an eccentric inhabitant of this parish who died at the age of 91, was (at his own request) buried in his garden : the tomb erected over his remains bears the date 1834. The Police Station erected in 1853, includes a large hall. The Oddfellows (formerly Temperance) Hall was built in 1850, at a cost of £400. The fairs formerly held here have been transferred to Scunthorpe. A corn market, established in 1826, is held every Wednesday evening at the Cross Keys hotel. Agricultural implement and machine making is carried on here, and an agricultural show takes place yearly in the first week of July. Richd Beck, a surgeon, of Barton-upon-Humber, left by his will, dated October 1728, 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. A plot of land, of nearly 3 acres, which lets for £6 a year was left for the repairs of the church.
The substructure of a Roman boundary mark was discovered in 1868 in the side of a sand pit near the road to Winteringham. Two beautiful tesselated Roman pavements, as well as urns and other Roman antiquities were discovered many years ago at a spot about 3 1/2 miles east of the village on the Cliff farm. The late William Fowler, antiquary and engraver, resided here. Winterton Hall is the residence of Mrs. Clarke. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late W. H. Driffill, esq., Major John William Dent, of Ribston Hall, Wetherby, James and Calvert Popple, esqrs. and the Rev. Canon Joseph Jonathan Dent Dent M.A. vicar of Hunsingore, Wetherby, W. Yorks. The soil is loam, clay and sand ; subsoil, oolite and lias. The chief crops are potatoes and barley. The area is 3,818 acres ; rateable value, £6,713 ; the population in 1891 was 1,500.
Parish Clerk, Robert Young Nassau.
Post, M. O. & T. O., T. M. O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. - Miss Sarah Jane Frow, postmistress. Letters from Doncaster by mail cart from Appleby station arrive at 8.17 a.m. & 7.10 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.10 a.m. & 5.55 p.m. to Doncaster & 7.10 p.m. to Hull. There is not a delivery or dispatch of letters on sundays, but the letter box is open as on other days. Money orders are granted & paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.
Wall Letter Boxes, Winteringham road & Park street, cleared at 7.55 & 8 a.m. & 5.55, 6.10, 6.50 & 6.55 p.m. respectively on week days only.
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Meets the first tuesday in every month at the Cross Keys hotel at 8 p.m.
Members.
Chairman, William Waddington.
Vice-chairman, Edwin Willford.
*Charles Cross
*Joseph Johnson.
*Thomas Kell.
*John Rae Spilman.
**John Brumby.
**Thomas Fletcher
**John Langton.
**William Waddington.
***Charles Barnes.
***John William Goodwin.
***John Edagr Smith.
***Edwin Willford.
Marked thus * retire in April, 1901.
Marked thus ** retire in April, 1902.
Marked thus *** retire in April, 1903.
Officers.
Clerk, Alfred Spencer ; offices, Queen street entrance.
Treasurer, William Henry Smith, York City & County Bank, Doncaster.
Medical Officer of Health, Roger Portington Goodworth L.R.C.P.Ed. Beech house.
Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Frederick Cross.
Collector, Robert Drinkall.
Inspectors under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, John Lovitt, Messingham & Geo. Holmes, Winterton.
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
Cemetery, Alfred Spencer, clerk to the burial board ; John Cheeseman, keeper.
County Police Station, one sergeant & one constable.
Fire Brigade, Richard B. Ayre, superintendent.
Oddfellows' Hall, Joseph Wade, sec.
PUBLIC OFFICERS
Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer, Winterton District, Glanford Brigg Union, & Medical Officer of Health, Roxby-cum-Risby Urban District Council, & Police Surgeon, Roger Portington L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng.
Collector of Assessed Taxes, Robert Drinkall.
Registrar of Births, Deaths & marriages for Winterton Sub-district, Glanford Brigg Union, Jn Bainton, Scunthorpe.
Relieving Officer, Winterton District, Glanford Brigg Union, Joseph Kendall.
Veterinary Inspector for the Board of Agriculture, Geo. Holmes.
Schools
National (mixed), built in 1841, at a cost of £400, for 180 children ; average attendance, 86 ; Miss Isabelle Kearton, mistress.
Wesleyan (mixed), for 240 children ; average attendance, 147 ; John Browton, master.
Conveyance
From Appleby - G. Harrison & C. Skelton, daily, to meet the 7.32, 10.2 & 10.6 a.m. & 6.5, 6.57 & 8.22 p.m. trains.
To Appleby - G. Harrison & C. Skelton, daily, to meet the 7.32, 10.2 & 10.6 a.m. & 6.5, 6.57 & 8.22 p.m. trains.
Carriers to
Barton - Thomas Smith & Frederick Collingwood, mon.
Brigg - Geo. Harrison & Chas. Skelton, mon. thurs. & sat.
Hull - Thos. Smith & Fredk. Collingwood, tues. & fri.
Ferriby Sluice - Thomas Smith & Frederick Collingwood, mon. tues. wed. fri. & sat.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Bennett, The Misses.
Bennett, Mrs. C. L.
Booth, William Holgate, Low street.
Botham, Richard Henry.
Bray, Mrs.
Bust, Joseph Sherp.
Chaffer, Mrs Jane.
Clarke, Mrs. Winterton hall.
Donner, Herman Wilhelm, North st.
Drinkall, Robert, Northlands cottage.
Fletcher, Mrs.
Fowler, Miss, West st.
Fowler, Mrs. R.
Gibbons, Rev. Charles Henry (vicar), Vicarage.
Glasier, W. F. Central house.
Goodworth, Roger Portington J.P. Beech house.
Hall, Rev. John (Primitive Methodist).
Hall, James Walsham.
Harrison, Mrs.
Henric, Mrs. Sarah, Hart lane.
Moon, Mrs. High street.
Morritt, George.
Oldfield, Mrs.
Pearce, Rev. William James (Weslyn.).
Popple, Mrs. Gilby house.
Spencer, Alfred, King street.
Spilman, John Rae J.P.
This extract provides a description and history of Winterton. It has been transcribed directly from the original directory.