Waithe

Waithe

St Martin's church, Waithe
Waithe

 Waithe shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference TA 28247 00631
District East Lindsey
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Grimsby
Postcode district DN36
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Louth and Horncastle
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Waithe (or Waythe) is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A16, 1 mile (1.6 km) south from Holton-le-Clay and 1 mile (1.6 km) north from North Thoresby.

In the Domesday account Waithe is written as "Wade",[1] and was one of the 398 properties assigned to Ilbert of Lacy.[2]

The village is the site of a deserted medieval village, indicated by earthworks, trackways and ditch enclosures, and 13th to 18th century pottery finds.[3]

In 1885 Kelly's reported that agricultural production in the then 780 acres (3.2 km2) parish was chiefly wheat, oats, turnips and barley, farmed under a four-field system.[4]

Waithe Grade I listed redundant church is dedicated to St Martin.[5] The church was rebuilt in 1861 by James Fowler of Louth, leaving only the Early English nave arcades and tower as elements of an earlier Saxon cruciform church.[6][7] The church was repaired and conserved in 2005.[8]

Other listed structures include grade II Waithe Water Mill, dating from 1813.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Waithe, Lincolnshire", The National Archives. Retrieved 13 August 2011
  2. ^ "Waithe", Domesday Map. Retrieved 13 August 2011
  3. ^ "Waithe", National Monuments Record, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011
  4. ^ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 698
  5. ^ "Church of St Martin", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011
  6. ^ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 330; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  7. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire pp. 415, 416; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096208
  8. ^ St Martin's Church, waithechurch.co.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2011
  9. ^ "Waithe Water Mill", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011

External links

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