West Halton 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

Known as Haltone in 1086 Halton is commonly translated as 'farmstead in a nook or corner of land'.

More information can be found in:

• 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

West Halton is situated about a mile north west of Winterton. The parish church of St Etheldreda was built in 1695 after the destruction of an earlier building in a fire in 1692. South west of the church lies the 17th century Coleby Hall.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

WEST HALTON is a parish, township and small village, 2 miles south from the river Humber, 2 ½ north-west from Winterton, on the road to Whitton, about 7 north-west from the Appleby and Frodingham stations on the south Yorkshire branch of the Great Central (late M.S and L) railway, and about 11 north-west from Brigg in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, north division of Manley wapentake, Winterton petty sessional division, Brigg union, Barton-upon-Humber county court district, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St Etheldreda, erected in 1695, after the destruction of an earlier church by fire in 1682, is in an edifice in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel with vestry, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles and containing 3 bells: on the south is a memorial window erected by Mary Sharp of West Halton to her father: another window has been restored by Mr James Green of Coleby, late churchwarden: the font of caen stone, and a new pulpit have been erected at the cost of the Rev. James Murray M.A. rector 1874 - 89: the church was partially restored in 1876-7 when the chancel was rebuilt at a cost of "576, and the nave at a cost of £496, both chancel and nave being reseated and the windows glazed afresh: four carved bench ends of oak in the chancel, a communion table cloth and other embroidery were executed and presented by Mrs Murray, wife of the Rev. J Murray, and another cloth has been presented by Mrs Hackblock of Coltisham, near Norwich: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £280, including 335 acres of glebe, with residence in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Richard Dearne Pierpoint M.A. of St John's College, Cambridge. There is a primitive Methodist chapel here built in 1877. Steamers from Goole and Gainsborough run daily on the Humber to and from Hull, calling at Whitton Pier, two miles north of west Halton. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield Bart. of Normanby Hall, the Rector and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The soil is good loam; subsoil partly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, potato and oats. The population of the township in 1891 was 235 in the civil and 246 in the ecclesiastical parish; the area is 1,979 acres; rateable value £2,088.

COLEBY is a hamlet half a mile south-west.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Andrew, W The History of Winterton and adjoining villages.
• Russell, R The Enclosures of Alkborough, West Halton, Whitton (1773 - 75) Scotter and Scotterthorpe.
• Fowler, J West Halton Bronze Age Hoard.
• Russell, E & R Landscape changes in South Humberside.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• Small Pox outbreak NLS 24.12.1892 4f / NLS 07.01.1893 8d / NLS 14.01.1893 3c
• Hill climbing contest LS 28.06.1913 8c
• Post Office - public telephone installed SFS 23.11.1929 4e
• Review of Plough Jags SFS 17.01.1948 10c.