Waithe
| Waithe | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Martin's Church, Waithe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA282006 |
| Location: | 53°29’12"N, 0°4’7"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Grimsby |
| Postcode: | DN36 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Waithe (or Waythe) is a tiny hamlet in the North Riding of Lindsey, in the north of Lincolnshire, on the A16 road, a mile south of Holton-le-Clay and a mile north of North Thoresby. All that is found there today are a church, four cottages and the name on a map. Once though there was a village, since lost.
History
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Waithe is listed as "Wade" and was split between four owners: It contained 30 households, four villeins and one freemen. Before the Conquest the lordship of the manor was held by Siward Barn, this was transferred by William the Conqueror to Odo of Bayeux, with Ivo Taillebois as Tenant-in-chief to the King.[1]
The village is the site of a deserted mediæval village, indicated by earthworks, trackways and ditch enclosures, and 13th- to 18th-century pottery finds.[2]
Waithe is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory (under the alternative spelling of 'Waith'), as a small parish of 58 people within 780 acres of fertile land, whose lord of the manor was also the patron of the parish benefice. St Martin's Church was described as "a neat structure" of Early English style which was partly rebuilt in 1869 for more than £2,000, the cost born by the lord of the manor. The incumbent held his office under a vicarage, and lived at Grainsby where he was the rector of that parish. At the time, the parish was entitled to send one person to the almshouses at Ashby cum Fenby. Occupations listed in 1872 were the parish clerk, two farmers, one of whom was at Waith Top, a grazier, and a corn miller at Waith Mill.[3]
In 1885 Kelly's Directory reported that agricultural production in the still 780-acre parish was chiefly wheat, oats, turnips and barley, farmed under a four-field system.[4]
Sights of Waithe
The church in the hamlet, the church of the former parish, is St Martin of Tours, a Grade I listed building, but a redundant church.[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]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Waithe) |
- Information on Waithe from GENUKI
- Waithe Lincolnshire: A Vision of Britain
References
- ↑ Waithe in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 892597 – Waithe
- ↑ White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.246
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 698
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359965: Church of St Martin
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 330; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0
- ↑ St Martin's Church, waithechurch.co.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2011
- ↑ National Heritage List 1147753: Waithe Water Mill