East Butterwick 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

Located on opposite sides of the River Trent the East and West prefixes to the village's names are easily explained. The meaning of Butterwick is suggested as 'dairy farm where butter is made'.

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

East Butterwick is located on the east bank of the River Trent opposite West Butterwick five miles east of Epworth.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

EAST BUTTERWICK is a township and village, on the east bank of the river Trent, in the parishes of Bottesford and Messingham, 3 ½ miles south from Gunhouse station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Great Central railway. 4 east from Epworth and about 10 west from Brigg, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division of the wapentake of Manley, petty sessional division of Scunthorpe, Glanford Brigg union and county court district. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers pass the village, calling daily. The river Trent is crossed by ferryboats. St. Andrew's mission church, built in 1884, at a cost of £500, is an edifice of red brick in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and small nave with one bell: there are 70 sittings. Divine service is conducted by the Rev. Agnew Walter Giles Gifford M.A. vicar of Messingham. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1870, and a Weslyan Chapel built in 1891. The Hale is a large common about 100 acres in extent, on which about 80 persons have grazing rights. Edward Peacock esq. of Dunstan House, Kirton Lindsey, is lord of the manor of that portion which is in the parish of Bottesford, and Frederick R. Smith esq. of Everton, Nottinghamshire of the portion that is in Messingham. The principal landowners are Frederick R. Smith esq. the trustees of William Cook Faber esq. and the Rev. Edward Augustus Faber M.A. of Ramsey, Isle of Man. The chief crops are potatoes, celery, wheat and beans. The soil is warp; subsoil, peat and sand. Two powerful steam engines are stationed here for draining the land. The area is 1,034 acres of land, including the common, 48 of tidal water and 7 of foreshore; rateable value £1,479; the population in 1891 of the township was 274.

By Local Government Board Order 19,998, March 25, 1887, a detached part of Messingham parish was added to East Butterwick.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Caldicott, Arthur. Life on the Trent and Humber rivers. 198-?
• Russell, Eleanor & Rex, C. Landscape changes in South Humberside: the enclosures of thirty - seven parishes. 1982.
  
• Tompkinson, Harry. Earning before learning. East Butterwick log book 1881-1906. 1990.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• Scotter Primitive Methodist quarterly circuit meeting held here LLS 13.06. 1903 5a.
• Schools re-opened after measles outbreak LLS 19.01. 1907 5a.