A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WINTERINGHAM, a parish, with a village, in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln; on the Humber, 7 miles W of Barton-upon-Humber r. station. It had formerly a corporation and a market; and it has now a post-office under Brigg, a fair on 14 July, and wharves. Acres. 3,675; of which 1,705 are water. Real property, £7,312. Pop, 858 houses, 191. The property is subdivided. A chalybeate spring is in the village; and the Roman town Ad Abum, is supposed to have stood ½ a mile to the E. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £750.* Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is Norman, early English, and good. There are two dissenting chapels, a national school, and charities £29.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Winteringham AP/CP Glanford Brigg RegD/PLU Lincolnshire AncC |
| Place: | Winteringham |
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