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Each
week, the Parish Council website carries a fresh “Winteringham Sunday Fact”. We didn’t save most of the first 100, but here are those used on the PC website since then.
97: Barbara Hofland wrote a children's book in 1809
called "The History of an Officer's Widow & Her Young Family" in which the family live "in a neat cottage between Barton and Winteringham in Lincolnshire."
98:
The East Yorkshire Steam Ship Company had a boat built in 1907, called "Winteringham". She was 3,637 grt, and built by J L Thompson & Sons, Sunderland. She was sold just three years later to an Argentinian company and renamed.
99: The Winteringham hymn!
Life is stranger than fiction ...Henry Kirke White wrote the hymn Oft in danger, Oft in woe (originally Much in sorrow, oft in woe) at Winteringham, but it
was finished by a 14 year old girl called Frances Sarah Maitland - who later married John Colquhoun ... who had been educated by Lorenzo Grainger at Winteringham about 1820 ... 15 years after H K White
had been tutored by Rev Grainger at Winteringham!
102: A National School operated in Winteringham before the National School building was erected.
103:
In the later part of the 17th century, and the first half of the 18th century, it was rare for there to be more than four weddings a year at Winteringham Church, but in November 1702, there were FIVE in ONE WEEK, between November 19th and November 26th!
104: Lincolnshire's railways were at their greatest extent between 1913 and 1925. The decline was started when NLLR stations - including Winteringham - closed on 13th July 1925.
105: Between May 11th and October 11th 1797, there were five weddings at Winteringham Church ... and in each the bride was called Mary!
106:
In 1796, there were four weddings at Winteringham Church in 48 hours ... two on May 17th, and one each on May 18th and May 19th!
107:
In 1912, it cost two shillings to sail across the Humber on Winteringham Ferry to Brough.
108:
In 2011, the current Winteringham Primary School will have been open as a school for longer than the National School was.
109:
On May Day the common pasture called the Marsh was stocked with horses, cows, and other cattle, and it was usual on this day to have bull-fighting.
110:
It was a requirement of the Mayor of Winteringham, that he ferry people across the Humber to Brough.
111:
Winteringham's Court Leet met once every three years in the Bay Horse Inn, and probably had the power to sentence felons to death. This has probably never been repealed!
112: Legend
suggests that the Marmion effigy in the church, inspired Sir Walter Scott's book of that name. The book is available to read here: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/marmn10a.txt
113:
One of Winteringham's well known families over a long period of time, was called … Winteringham!
114:
A stained glass window in Winteringham Church states that Thomas Adam died on March 31st 1784 aged 84. He died on March 30th aged 83.
115:
300 years ago Seeds Field was called Bramdale.
116: After the closure of the railway line from Winteringham to Whitton, a suggestion was put forward to turn the trackbed into a road
joining the two villages.
117: William Stukeley made an "aerial drawing" of Winteringham in 1724, not unlike an image you might get from a modern "satnav"!
118:
300 years ago, a vast rib or jaw bone of a whale was a long-time feature seen in Winteringham.
119: Winteringham has had at least 6 different pubs and alehouses
120:
When the road to Scunthorpe was blocked by snow in the winter of 1947, village postmaster Arthur Wardle organised a "relief column" to Winterton.
121:
In 1957, Frank Burkill made the WI a tea trolley on pram wheels. It was called Polly ... from the children’s song “Polly put the kettle on!”
122:
Polly Lives! The WI tea trolley "Polly" made in 1957, is still in the village! Now retired from the regular WI meetings, it comes out for special occasions and exhibitions.
123: When the Magna Carta was signed in 1215, there were no fewer than three Marmions present - including Winteringham's Robert Marmion the Younger.
124:
300 years ago, the Croft field was two fields, called the Near Middle Close, and the Far Middle Close
125:
Between March and August 1864, 17 young people - almost all of whom were 5 years old or under, died of scarlet fever.
126:
The wonderfully named Theophilus Teall, the Winteringham Stationmaster prior to the Great War, liked the Stationmaster's House so much that he built a copy of it on Winterton Road!
127:
In 1851 Winteringham had 12 shoemakers, and repairers. 50 years later, in 1901, there were just 2, and another 50 years later, Mr Teal was the last one.
128:
Winteringham was almost 600 years ahead of France in one respect … The big celebration of the year took place on July 14th! Winteringham's was a fair held under a charter given by King John, whilst the French started celebrating their Bastille Day in the late 18th century.
129: I do! I do! I do! When two weddings took place at Winteringham Church in July 2008, it wasn’t the first time that this occurred on one day, though comparatively rare.
However, in May 1808, the Church hosted THREE weddings on the same day!
130: In the 1660's only five villagers paid tax!
131:
The Living of Winteringham Rectory was one of the most valuable in the whole of the Lincoln diocese in the 18th century, and could therefore attract high-profile Rectors!
132:
BBC's Top Gear programme showed a race between Graham Boanas, and James May driving an Alfa Romeo. The car's final leg was down Booth Nooking Lane and on the track behind the Humber bank.
133: In the mid-1960s, sheep on village farms outnumbered chickens by 2 to 1.
134:
There has only been one religious census, which took place on 30th March 1851. Winteringham Church had no services that day … as the Church was closed for major renovations and repairs!
135: Winteringham's "Market Day" in the 14th century was Wednesday.
136:
A Burgage was a well-known term used in England from before the 13th century. Usually it was a house on a long plot of land, with the narrow end facing the street, and for which a rent in money was paid (as distinct from a rent paid in services). People in burgages often had voting rights not available to others in the village or town, including for MPs, and if someone bought the majority of Burgage properties in a town could effectively appoint their own MP! In Winteringham, only the people in Low and High Burgage could appoint the mayor!
137: The Post Office Directory of 1861 gives Winteringham's acreage as 3,050, whilst that of 1868 gives it as 3,979!
138:
The centre spot of Winteringham FC's Low Burgage ground is 492 metres from the high water mark of the Humber, and 166 metres from the nearest tidal water (near Haven Bridge). Grimsby Town's Blundell Park is the closest of all English professional grounds to the sea - their centre spot being 212 metres from the sea.
139: John Meggitt was a nailmaker in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
140:
PC Jack Creasey, the village policeman in the 1920s, and his wife, had five children born within 5 years and 10 months!
141:
Bull-fighting was practised in Winteringham. It was common on May Day 250 years ago.
142:
The almshouses at Town End which were still in use in the 1950s, were described as “in rather bad condition” in 1912!
143:
In the early 1950s, Winteringham still had more than 10 "shops".
144: Annual membership to the village Reading Room in Low Burgage 100 years ago was 4 shillings.
145:
100 years ago, the North Lincolnshire Chemical Manufacturing Co.(Messrs. Langton) had their works in Marsh Lane.
146:
There are now twice as many houses in Winteringham as there were 200 years ago, but the population has only risen by a third.
147:
Winteringham has had at least five pubs, a brewery, wine and spirit merchants, a bottle-washing plant, and two maltkilns … as well as locally made soft drinks … and a Temperance Hall!
148:
In 1724, travellers from Winteringham to Ferriby had to use a small ferry boat, as the 3-arched bridge had fallen down. After stepping through miry clay, stones and stakes, intrepid travellers were rowed across the Ancholme by a "little old deaf fellow with a long beard!"
149:
Winteringham Church is built just 8 metres above sea level according to ordnance survey data, lower than any other local church, which include Whitton (12m), West Halton (17m), Winterton (28m), South Ferriby (35m), Alkborough (47m), and Burton (61m)
150: The highest place in Winteringham is 43m (142 feet) above sea level.
151:
The population of Winteringham went down for every census from 1861 to 1891, and has gone up for every one of the censuses since!
152:
The only time a fishmonger is mentioned in the directories of the village, was in 1919, when the trade was carried on by William Coleby.
153:
At its greatest extent, Winteringham Parish is over 4 miles long, but at its narrowest is just half a mile wide (not counting the water to the Parish/County boundary in the middle of the Humber).
154: In the mid-sixties there were twice as many sheep in the village as there were of either people, or poultry!
155:
At least one warship was built at Winteringham. The Swell was a minesweeper, built to be converted to a fishing drifter after the Great War.
156:
At a time when it is considered "too expensive" to defend all the land from a rise in sea level of a few inches or so, it seems strange that in 1795 - when "earthmoving equipment" would consist of wooden shovels and wooden barrows - Winteringham had a Humber bank built, three-quarters of a mile long, and SEVEN FEET high!
157: Although Hewde Lane is unique, it's older name - Puddingpoke Lane - is not!
158: In 1835 there were six daily schools in Winteringham, plus a Sunday School!
159: In the 1960s there were 45 buses timetabled to, from and via Winteringham each day, with the majority on the Scunthorpe to New Holland (for the ferries) routes.
160:
According to the 1821 Census of Winteringham, 169 different families lived in the 159 occupied houses.
161:
Winteringham’s warship - HMS Vanity, was exactly the same length as Shoemaker’s Lane! (Also known as Nanny Willey’s Lane)
162: Boys and girls boarding schools operated in Winteringham in
the early 19th century. They charged £21 to £26 a year. An agricultural labourer of the time would earn … about £26 a year!
163: Winteringham’s “Three-field system” saw the West
Field, between Yarlsgate and Winterton Road, Middle Field between Winterton Road and Old Street Hedge, and East Field between Old Street Hedge and Ermine Street ... but there were another 9 fields and
commons in the parish!
164: Maps of Winteringham geology, shows it to be one of the most complex parishes in the entire country!
165:
Winteringham Station is the only one on the NLLR still standing!
166:
When Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame) visited the village in 1863, he returned to Whitby after a week, leaving Winteringham at 8:30 am, and arriving at Whitby by 5:30 pm having also visited Beverley to see the Minster. This journey can be completed using public transport today! Here's how! Depart Winteringham on the 350 service at 08:39, leaving the bus at 09:08, and joining the 09:14 "HF" service bus to Hull Royal Infirmary (09:26). Walk for 9 minutes to Hull (Rail) and join the 09:44 Northern Rail train to Scarborough, but alighting at Beverley at 09:56. We have allowed 2 hours to view the Minster, before boarding the 12:27 train to Bridlington which arrives there for 12:54. A walk of 7 minutes to Hilderthorpe Road follows, from where we catch the bus to Scarborough, leaving at 13:07, and arriving at 14:09. Another 4 minutes walk to Scarborough Railway Station to join the bus to Middlesbrough at 14:40, arriving at Whitby at 15:40!
167: Winteringham spring water was once compared in beer-making quality to that of Burton on Trent, England’s centre of the trade!
168: Winteringham’s Primitive Methodist
Chapel in High Burgage was certified for worship on 15th March 1862, and the certification was cancelled 82 years later on 30th October 1944 as it had ceased to be used by its congregation as a place of
worship.
169:
As Winteringham’s Football Club completes one of its most successful seasons ever, the origins of the first representative team in the village are lost in the mists of time! Winteringham Sports Club was operating over a hundred years ago, and the cricket club used the Croft for decades for its matches.
170:
Winteringham’s current Village Hall has just reopened after remodelling costing many thousands of pounds. The original Village Hall was the Temperance Hall on the corner of West End and Hewde Lane, opened in 1882, at a cost of about £300! It was built after it was decided that the Ferry Boat Inn was too small for many of the village functions.
171: Is this the most unusual address in the Parish Registers? On 11th August 1830, Winteringham Mary Anne Draper married John Harrison ... whose address was “on board the Lapwing, a
Revenue cutter cruising off the Lincolnshire coast”!
172: Long before refrigerators became an everyday piece of kitchen equipment, Winteringham had an ice house!
173:
According to Dugdale's "New British Traveller, Volume 3" (1819) Winteringham Fair was for horned cattle and goods.
174:
Between 27th September 1801 and April 18th 1802 there were 27 consecutive burials at Winteringham Church - all of children, 8 years old and younger!
175: In the nineteenth century, one
Winteringham man is reputed to have walked 7 miles a day, six days a week with his wheelbarrow for 30 years.
That’s the equivalent of more than 2½ times round the world ... and all with the same wheelbarrow!
176:
Winteringham FC play on a football pitch lower than any of the 92 pitches in the whole of the football league!
177: Winteringham was a largely sober place in 1883. The Winterton
Brewster Sessions revealed that there were 81 convictions for drunkenness in the year.
These were Frodingham 35, Messingham 17, Winterton 9, Burringham 8, Ashby 6, Burton 5, Winteringham 2, and Appleby 1.
178:
In 1860, one pig raised in the village, weighed in at more than a quarter of a ton after it had been killed at eighteen months!
179:
In the 1850s the Reading Society met every Monday, frequently having lectures to packed audiences.
180:
In the 1880s, Winteringham contracts were not binding unless a straw was inserted into the top of the document.
181: Embroidery and sewing were important in both private and nationally
maintained schools in the village, and those schools appeared to have a reputation for high-quality in the nineteenth century.
A sampler produced at the National School in 1878 by Evalina Evratt was recently sold on Ebay for over £143! Evalina became a seamstress later in life.
182:
Winteringham had windmills for many centuries, in various parts of the parish, and of various kinds (postmills, tower mills, etc). However, it seems the last day of milling using wind power was on 20th April 1885, when a sail fell off … in a gentle breeze!
183: Market Hill used to have a line of shops on the north side.
184: In days gone by, it wasn’t unusual for children to be baptised within hours, or days of being born,
which could mean children being baptised a long way from home if the mother was visiting elsewhere.
In 1909, Charles and Emily King from Salisbury, Rhodesia, had their daughter Freda baptised at Winteringham! Is she the child furthest from home to be baptised here?
185:
As late as 1953, Winteringham still had more than a dozen working farm horses.
186: With Read's Island growing and shrinking, and the "mainland" having mudbanks deposited and land
washed away, Winteringham's natural land area probably changes more than any other Lincolnshire village.
187:
Winteringham objected to the building of docks at Hull! Brigg apparently objected too!
188: Maps sold for public use just before the Great War, show the railway in existence between
Winteringham and Barton, and Whitton and Alkborough even though they were never built! The Barton line from Winteringham would have included a level crossing in Low Burgage, and another close to
Low Farm on Sluice Lane, a bridge over the Ancholme, and a tunnel between Ferriby and Barton, if the route shown on the map was accurate.
189:
In the 18th century, the Rector was obliged by custom to keep a bull and a boar for the use of the parish!
190:
The road past Grange Farm was made by the Enclosure Commissioners in the late 18th century.
191: An old postcard of Winteringham Station is featured on an American political website!
192: Fishing was an industry recorded in Winteringham from Domesday times to the nineteenth century.
193:
In 1801, Winteringham's population was four times the size of Scunthorpe’s. Winteringham remained the bigger of the two until the early 1870s!
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