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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!
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 This has probably never been repealed!
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