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Wineuuiche (xi cent.), Wynwyke (xvi cent.).
Winwick lies on the western borders of Huntingdonshire adjoining Northamptonshire. Part of the parish (some 959 acres) was formerly included in Polebrook Hundred (Northamptonshire) but was wholly transferred to Huntingdonshire in 1888. Hamerton and Old Weston are situated to the south of it and the Giddings to the east. The Alconbury Brook forms its northern end of its eastern boundary, the land along its banks being liable to floods.
The village is four and a half miles south east of Barnwell, 7 miles south-east of Oundle and 7.5 miles north of Kimbolton. It lies near to the centre of the parish on a road running north-west to south-east. At the eastern side of the village is the church of All Saints. At the northern end is the Three Horseshoes Inn. The Manor House is also situated near he church in a north-westerly direction.
The parish lies at a level of about 112 ft. to 225 ft. above sea level. Its soil and sub-soil are stiff clay. The chief crops grown are wheat, barley and beans.
The registers mention 'the outbreak of plague at Winwick anno domini 1546 when 40 people, including the vicar, were buried between March and August'. Family researchers should be aware that there is another separate parish of Winwick, which is wholly within Northamptonshire on the Warwickshire border.
Monumental inscriptions of this parish have not yet been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Census information for this parish is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Winwick is available as fiche set C121 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The full 1851 Census of Winwick is available as fiche set C71 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
An index of the 1851 Census of Winwick, in the Hundred of Navisford and Polebrook, has been published on microfiche by the Northamptonshire Family History Society Publications List.
A surname index of the 1881 Census of the Oundle Registration District of Northamptonshire, in which Winwick was enumerated (RG11/1584, Folios 44a - 50b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C1 from the Huntingdonshire FHS
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdonshire (Miscellaneous Parishes) Registration District in which Winwick was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, is available as fiche set C16 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
OS Grid Square TL 105807.
The church of All Saints consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle,
south trancept, south aisle, west tower and modern south porch. The
walls are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are
covered with lead and stone slates.
The church is not mentioned
in the Domesday survey of 1086 but the 12th century south doorway points to a
stone church of that period. The chancel, nave and south aisle were rebuilt in
the middle of the 13th century, and the north arcade was formed and the aisle
added about 1325. The chancel arch was rebuilt to the full width of the chancel
in about 1340, and the south aisle wall were probably raised and reconstructed
about the same time. The south transept was built in the early part of the 15th
century, and the west tower towards the end of that century.
Early in
the 16th century the clearstory was added to the nave, thje whole of the roofs
were renewed and the north aisle largely rebuilt. The church was drastically
restored in 1864, when the south transept, south aisle clearstory, porch and
the upper part of spire were rebuilt. The spire (98 ft.) was struck by
lightening on 25th June 1935, after which it was restored.
Baptisms: 1538/9-1757, 1757-1812, 1813-1864.
Banns:
1754-1812.
Marriages: 1539/40-1745/6, 1754-1812, 1813-1836,
1837-1914, 1916-1944.
Burials: 1539-1757, 1757-1812.
Bishop's
Transcripts: 1605-9, 1612, 1617-19, 1626-7, 1631, 1660-8/1690-2, 1694-5,
1698-1702, 1704-7, 1709-14, 1716-26, 1728-35, 1738-40, 1743-6,
1748-1812/1813-24/1825-35, 1851-5.
These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The parish of Winwick was originally in the Oundle Registration District from 1st July 1837. In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Sawtry sub-District. It is now part of the Huntingdon District.
A GENWEB page on Winwick is available.
An old map of the parish of Winwick is available.
Population in 1801 - 110
Population in 1851 - 272
Population in 1901 -
108
Population in 1951 - 128
Population in 1971 -
91
Population in 1991 - 97
Winwick was in the Oundle Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The parish of Winwick occupied 1781 acres of land.
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