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Lincolnshire Towns & Parishes

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Winteringham

Census

• The parish was in the Winterton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known (provided by Kieth Dorey):
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• There is a photograph of All Saints Church on the Wendy Parkinson Church Photos web site, taken by Paul Fenwick.
  
  
• Here is a photo of All Saints Church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
  
  

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Church Records

• Parish registers exist from 1627, although entries back to 1562 appear in the Bishop's transcripts.
  
  
• Syd Beacroft has offered to do lookups in the parish register for researchers. Contact him at: Syd Beacroft.
  
  
• Check the Manlake Deanery to see existing Marriage Indexes.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel used to exist in the parish. For information and assistance in researching this chapel, see our non-conformist religions page.
  
  
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Winterton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
  
  
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish is in the far north of Lincolnshire, bordered on the north by the River Humber and in the south by Winterton parish. The parish covers about 3,970 acres of land.

The village is easy to reach. If you are planning a visit:

• From the A15 trunk road, where it crosses Barton-upon-Humber, take the A1077 west about seven miles to Winteringham.
  
  
• Alternately, one could just drive north on Ermine Street to Winteringham.
  
  
• Check out our touring page.
  
  
• The village has its own website. The site has some Genealogical data, as well.
  
  

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History

• A half mile east of the village of Winteringham is the site of the Roman town of Ad Abum.
  
  
• Ermine Street, the great Roman Road, ended here at a ferry across the Humber.
  
  
• In older times, a pleasure faire was held each July 14^th.
  
  

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Maps

• The National Grid Reference for the village is SE 9222.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• The name Winteringham is from the Old English Wintra+inga+ham, or "Homestead of the followers of Wintra". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village name is little-changed, given as Wintringeham.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
  
  

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Names, Personal

• The surname BURKHILL appears often in the parish.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Manley Wapentake in the Glanford division in the parts of Lindsey.
  
  
• District governance is currently provided by the North Lincolnshire Council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	678
1831	726
1871	779
1901	595
1971	867
2001	989

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Schools

• A National School was built here in 1845.
  
  
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.
  
  

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