Winteringham 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 Wintringeham in the Doomsday Book the villages name translates as 'homestead of the family or followers of a man called Wintra'.

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

The village of Winteringham lies two miles north of Winterton. It is here that the Roman road, Ermine Street, meets the River Humber and in Roman times the village was a major crossing point to Brough on the Yorkshire side of the river. A Roman station sometimes called Ad Abum was based here just to east of the present day village.

It was at Winteringham in 1143 that William de Barbara, Dean of York learned that he had been elected Bishop of Durham. His election was confirmed at the altar of Winteringham Parish Church, All Saints, where a Te Deum was sung to commemorate the event.

Another famous person linked with Winteringham is Henry Kirke White, the Nottinghamshire born port. He lived in the village during 1804 and 1805 while studying under the then curate, the Rev Lorenzo Garinger. In his published correspondence White speaks highly of the village describing it as "a country spot, very charming with streams, hills, fields and every beauty".

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

WINTERINGHAM is an old corporate town (which formerly had a market), parish and pleasant village, on the south bank of the Humber, 7 miles north from Appleby station on the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby branch of the Great Central (M S and L) railway, 2 ½ north from Winterton and 71/2 west from Barton in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey. Northern division of the wapentake of Manley, petty sessional division of Winterton, Glanford Brigg union, county court district of Barton-upon-Humber, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaconry of Stow and Diocese of Lincoln. On the opposite shore of the Humber is a station of the hull and Selby railway and on the riverside are wharves for corn, malt, coal and timber. The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, transept and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 5 bells: many of the windows are stained: in the south aisle is a recumbent effigy of a Knight Templar in chain mail in a very good state of preservation: the chancel retains a piscina and credence table: in 1899 a hot water heating apparatus was added, and other alterations made, at a cost of £250: there are 350 sittings. The register dates from the year 1562. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £439, including 290 acres of glebe with residence in the gift of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and held since 1899 by the Rev. Henry Townsend Sale M.A. formerly scholar of that College. Here is a Weslyan chapel built in 1891 and a Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1837. The poor have yearly, in coals and money the sum of about £12 arising from the bequest of the Rev. Thomas Adam, Eleanor Scarborough, Roger Manners and Thomas Middleton, and a benefaction left by Mr Thomas Boothby produces about £16 yearly. Edward Westoby, late of this place also left in 1873 the sum of £90, the interest of which is given annually each Christmas day to the poor. In the old Rectory house now used as stables and out-houses, Henry Kirke White the port was for a brief period in 1799 under the tuition of Mr Grainger. A pleasure fair is held, under a charter granted in the reign of King John on the 14th July. About half a mile east of the village the Roman town, Ad Abum is supposed to have stood. Near the village is achalybeate spring, thought to possess great medicinal qualities. St Etheldreda, when she fled from her second husband Egfrid, king of Northumbria, in order to devote herself to a religious life, crossed the Humber and landed at the village of Winteringham haven, when turning aside to the village of West Halton, then called "Alfham" at the time almost surrounded by marshes, she sought and received hospitality and remaining there a short time she built on that spot a church, which was dedicated in her honour, and is still known by her name. William de.S. Barbara, a monk of Durham and dean of York, having gone in 1143 to attend Council in London, was during his absence elected bishop of Durham, and on his return was met at Winteringham and taken to the altar in Winteringham Church, where his election was confirmed and a Te Deum sung to commemorate the event: he was bishop of Durham 1143 - 53. A Temperance Hall was built in 1882 for the parish at a cost of about £300. Earl Carrington P.C., G.C.M.G who is lord of the manor, and the rector are the principal landowners. The soil is a rich loam resting on the oolitic limestone stratum, which in this neighbourhood is but a little distance from the surface. The chief crops are wheat, barley, potatoes and beans. The area is 3,588 acres of land, 689 of tidal water, principally arising from the washing away of the banks of the Humber and 274 of foreshore; rateable value £4770; the population in 1891 was 584.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Winteringham Local History Group. A History of a Village, Winteringham 1761 - 1871.
• WEA Winteringham Branch. Life and work in North Lincolnshire village 1650 - 1760.
• Russell, R. & E. The enclosures of Winteringham.
• Irving, H. The Tidal havens of the Wash and Humber.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• First meeting of Parish Council LS 12.01.1895 4f.
• Court Leet held - first time for 30 years LLS 05.11.1904 3f.
• Seam of coal found LLS 12.10.1907 5e.
• New section of sea wall built LS 28.08.1909 5e.
• Roman Well discovered and excavated SFS 08.04.1931 9b.