Wootton

• The parish was in the Barton sub-district of the Glanford Brigg Registration District.
• We have a handful of 1901 census surnames in a text file. Your additions are welcome.
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church here is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
• The church was partially rebuilt in 1851.
• The church seats aboout 200.
• There is a photograph of St. Andrew's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, taken by Paul FENWICK.
• David WRIGHT has a good photograph of the Church Tower on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
• Here is a photo of St. Andrew's church, taken by (and copyright of) Ron COLE.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1563.
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Yarborough Deanery to make your search easier.
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1821. The Wesleyan Methodists built one in 1857.
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in 2010. The chapel was recently converted into a private house.
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Barton 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.

Wootton is a village and a parish about 4 miles south of the Humber River and 5 miles south-east of Barton. Ulceby parish lies to the south-east. The parish covers almost 3,000 acres.

The village of Wootton lies between two ranges of the Wold Hills. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1077 arterial road north out of Ulceby or south out of Barrow-on-Humber.
• The village has a very pretty pond, near to the church, popular with local children. David WRIGHT has a photograph of the village pond on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wootton to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Wootton has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• The Nag's Head Public House has provided a popular conversation spot. The inn is still functioning and recently earned a 5-star rating. These are the names associated with the place in various directories:

The Nag's Head census in 1881 included one servant and one lodger (Ref: RG 11/3289, folio 8):

Relationship	Name	Sex	Age	Where born
Head	Edward DALE	M	35	Kirmington, Lincolnshire
wife	Hannah DALE	F	40	Kirmington, Lincolnshire
son	Frederick DALE	M	13	Melton, Lincolnshire
daugh.	Annie E. DALE	F	12	Melton, Lincolnshire
son	Henry E. DALE	M	11	Goxhill, Lincolnshire
daugh.	Laura DALE	F	9	Goxhill, Lincolnshire
son	Tom DALE	M	7	Goxhill, Lincolnshire
servant	Ellen LACEY	F	16	Barton, Lincolnshire
lodger	Ashton HOWSON	M	21	Ferraby (Ferriby Sluice in Barton?), Lincolnshire

• Wootton Hall was built in 1796 in a park of 114 acres and was still standing in 1913. It was the home in 1871 of John FERRABY and in 1913 of Miss FERRABY.
• In 1930, James William FARROW was residing in Wootton Hall.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TA087161 (Lat/Lon: 53.630389, -0.35697), Wootton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a photograph the War Memorial plaques on the Lytch gate and the names thereon at the Roll of Honour site.

• Wootton is also known as "Wootton le Wold".

• 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 Yarborough Wapentake in the Glanford district in the parts of Lindsey.
• Should you wish to contact the Wootton Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, they are on Facebook. They are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
• District governance is currently provided by the North Lincolnshire Council.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Barton-on-Humber petty session hearings every other Monday.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	333
1831	459
1841	529
1871	597
1891	506
1911	463
2001	492

• The school was founded here in 1727 by John FAULDING to educate as free scholars the children of Wootton, Ulceby and Thornton Curtis. The school was rebuilt in 1865.
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.