Wintringham, North Yorkshire

Not to be confused with Winteringham.

Wintringham
Wintringham Location within North Yorkshire
Population	204 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SE883730
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MALTON
Postcode district	YO17
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Thirsk and Malton

Wintringham is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is near the A64 road and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Malton.

Two long-distance footpaths, the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail and the Centenary Way, pass through. The former Anglican parish church of St Peter's is located in the village. It has been redundant as a church since 2004.

History

Church of St Peter, Wintringham

The settlement is mentioned in the Domesday Book as being worth £2 and belonging to Ranulph de Mortimer, who also owned lands in Herefordshire and Shropshire.^[2][3] The name derives from Old English as the hām (village or homestead) of Winteringas [people]. It shares the same derivation as Winteringham and Winterton in Lincolnshire.^[4][5]

The parish grew up as the estate villages of the nearby Place Newton estate, which covers 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), and lies just to the south of Wintringham.^[6][7] Improvements to the estate in the early part of the 20th century included replacing all the thatched roofs in Wintringham with tiles, and the planting of 350 acres (140 ha) of woodland.^[8]

The Church of St Peter in the village was built between the 12th and 15th centuries. Pevsner described it as "..the most rewarding church in the East Riding.."^[6] It was declared redundant in 2004, and is maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust.^[9][10] A Wesleyan chapel was built in the village in 1834, but was converted into a garage showroom in the 1960s.^[11][12]

In the 1950s, one of the Ham-class Royal Navy minesweepers was named after the village.^[13]

Two long-distance footpaths pass through the village – the Centenary Way, and the Yorkshire Wolds Way.^[14] The nearest railway station was at Rillington, almost 4 miles (6.4 km) to the north on the York–Scarborough line.^[15] The nearest open railway station is at Malton, some 7 miles (11 km) to the west.^[16][17]

Land to the west of the village that borders Wintringham Beck, was designated as an SSSI in 1975. Wintringham Marsh was cited because of the quality of its plants and the uniformity of their graduation from dry land to marshland.^[18][19][20] In the year 2000, a small pond was built between the marsh and the village to celebrate the Millennium.^[21]

Governance

Wintringham was part of the wapentake of Buckrose in the East Riding of Yorkshire.^[22] It was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974, and between 1974 and 2023 the village was part of the Ryedale district.^[23][24] It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council.

Notable people

The deserted hamlet of Linton, to the south-east, was the probable birthplace of Lady Margaret Hoby, author of the earliest extant diary of a woman in English.^[25]

References

1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Wintringham Parish (E04007653)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
2. "Wintringham | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
3. "Ralph of Mortimer | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
4. Smith, A. H. (1970) [1937]. Place-names of East Riding of Yorkshire and York. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-521-04907-5.
5. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 212, 525. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
6. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David; Neave, Susan (2005). Yorkshire – York and the East Riding. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 759. ISBN 0300095937.
7. Flanagan, Emily (1 August 2011). "Gamekeeper's 40 year accolade". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
8. Allison, Keith John (1976). The East-Riding of Yorkshire Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 159. ISBN 0340158212.
9. "Wintringham St Peter (Churches Conservation Trust)". nationalchurchestrust.org. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
10. "Church of England, Wintringham, St. Peter, parish – Borthwick Catalogue". borthcat.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
11. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David; Neave, Susan (2005). Yorkshire – York and the East Riding. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 760. ISBN 0300095937.
12. Jeffels, Davis (3 April 2008). "Garage closure marks end of 80-year village tradition". Gazette & Herald. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
13. Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1960). Jane's fighting ships, 1960–61. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 47. OCLC 32592771.
14. "300" (Map). Howardian Hills & Malton. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978-0-319-24552-1.
15. "Wintringham East Riding". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
16. "Wintringham postcode – Postcode by address". postcodebyaddress.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
17. "Genuki: Wintringham, Yorkshire (East Riding)". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
18. "Site Name: Wintringham Marsh" (PDF). designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
19. "Magic Map". magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
20. "Wintringham Marsh North Yorkshire". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
21. "Wintringham Millennium Pond Management Plan" (PDF). democracy.ryedale.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
22. "Genuki: WINTRINGHAM: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892., Yorkshire (East Riding)". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
23. Guide No. 6 North Yorkshire gazetteer of townships and parishes. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Council. 1986. p. 33. ISBN 0 906035 29 5.
24. Connell, Dylan (31 March 2023). "Here are the Easter events taking place in Ryedale". Gazette & Herald. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
25. Slack, Paul (23 September 2004). "Hoby, Margaret, Lady Hoby (bap. 1571, d. 1633)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37555. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

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