Winteringham, Lincolnshire

Description
Winteringham, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the Humber, 7 miles W of Barton-upon-Humber station, and 6 N of Appleby station on the M.S. & L.R. The village has a post and money order office under Doncaster; telegraph office, Winterton. It had formerly a corporation and a market, and has now a fair on 14 July, under a charter of King John, and wharves. Acreage of parish, 3588; population, 584. There is a parish council of eight members. A chalybeate spring is in the village, and the Roman town Ad Abum is supposed to have stood half a mile to the E. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £470 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is Norman, Early English, and good. There are Wes-leyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a temperance hall.