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