Wootton 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 Udetune in 1086, Wootton translates as 'farmstead or village in a wood or tract of woodland'.

More information can be found in:

• Cameron, Keith. The Place-Names of Lincolnshire.

• Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place Names.

The place

Wootton is located six miles south east of Barton and six miles south of New Holland.

Population history

Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900

WOOTTON is a parish and pleasant village, about 3 miles from each of the railway stations of Thornton Abbey, Ulceby and Brocklesby on the Great Central (M. S. and L.) railway, 5 ½ south-east from Barton and 6 south from New Holland, in the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of the county, parts of Lindsey, northern division of Yarborough hundred, Glanford Brigg union, Barton-upon -Humber petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Yarborough No. 1, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, south porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles and containing a clock and 3 bells: the chancel retains a piscina and there is one at the east end of each aisle: there are ten stained windows: the church was restored in 1851, and has over 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1563. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £225, including 160 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of, and held since 1873 by, the Rev. William Walter George Giffard B.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge and J.P. Lincs. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. A reading room has been bequeathed to the parish by the late Mrs. Eddie. The poor have 10s. and the vicar 10s. yearly, left by John and Samuel Faulding, of Wootton: the former sum is distributed yearly in bread. Wooton Hall, the seat of Miss Ferraby, and built in 1796, is a brick mansion, standing in a park of about 114 acres. The Earl of Yarborough P.C. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is partly loam, chalk and clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,065 acres; rateable value, £4,010; the population in 1891 was 506, estimated 450 in 1900.

Holdings in North Lincolnshire Local Studies Library

• Russell, Eleanor and Rex C. Landscape changes in South Humberside. 1982.

References in the Star Newspaper Index

• Children in area taken to school by wagonette LLS 04.06.1904 8b.
• Schools closed due to outbreak of measles and scarlet fever LLS 31.10.1903 5e.
• Mill struck by lightning - severe damage LLS 06.04.1907 5e.
• Traction engine driven over dried up bed of pond LS 04.10.1913 4e.
• Farm workers wages increased LS 06.03.1915 2e.
• Ministry of Health inquiry into fitness of houses here SFS 22.01.1938 12c.