Heapham

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Heapham
Lincolnshire
Heapham, Hewitt's Mill.jpg
Heapham windmill
Location
Grid reference: SK875883
Location: 53°23’4"N, 0°41’6"W
Data
Post town: Gainsborough
Postcode: DN21
Dialling code: 01427
Local Government
Council: West Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Gainsborough

Heapham is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, five miles south-east of Gainsborough.

Then name 'Heapham' derives from the Old English for 'Rose-hip, or bramble, homestead', from heope ham.[1]

Heapham is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a scattered village and parish with a population of 141, and of 1,250 acres of land in the Soke of Kirton. All Saints Church had been restored in 1869-70 at a cost of £400. The incumbency was a rectory valued at £361 and included a residence, under the patronage of Lieutenant-colonel Weston Cracroft Amcotts M.P. The Heapham entry included the small Wesleyan chapel, built 1842. Professions and trades listed in 1872 included the parish rector, a corn miller, a farm bailiff, and thirteen farmers, one of whom was a parish overseer, and another a carter and carrier; the carrier [transporting goods and occasionally people] operated between the village and Gainsborough.[2]

Churches

The parish church, All Saints, has a tower which is of Anglo-Saxon origin. The main body is Norman. The church was restored in 1868.[3][4] The church is a Grade I listed building.[5]

The churchyard contains the war grave of a Sherwood Foresters soldier of the First World War.[6]

Two chapels were built by Wesleyan Methodists, one in 1842 the other, Grade II listed, in 1897.[7]

About the village

Other listed buildings include Heapham Windmill, described as "The most complete windmill in West Lindsey".[8][9]

References

  1. Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
  2. White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, p.317
  3. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 162-163; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  4. Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull, 1885, p. 472
  5. National Heritage List 1064048: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
  6. CWGC Casualty Record.
  7. Information on Heapham  from GENUKI
  8. National Heritage List 1064049: Heapham Windmill (Grade II listing)
  9. Heapham Windmill: Windmill World