Winestead

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Winestead
Yorkshire
East Riding

St Germain's Church, Winestead
Location
Grid reference: TA299245
Location: 53°42’6"N, 0°1’60"W
Data
Post town: Hull
Postcode: HU12
Dialling code: 01964
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Beverley and Holderness

Winestead is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Holderness. It is seven miles south-east of the town of Hedon and a mile and a half north-west of Patrington, to the north of the A1033 road.

This village is the ancient seat of the Hildyard/Hilliard/Hildegardis family, whose ancestry is believed to be of Saxon origin. The Hildyard family of Winestead became extinct on the death of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard, Bart., who died without heirs in 1814. Hildyard bequeathed his estates to his niece, Ann Catherine Whyte, who married in the following year Thomas Blackborne Thoroton, Esq., of Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottingham. Colonel Thoroton of the Coldstream Guards subsequently assumed the name and coat-of-arms of Hildyard.[1] His heirs, who still have the surname Hildyard, reside at Flintham Hall today.[2] The Hildyard family lived at Winestead for 10 generations, and even after the death of the last Baronet, the heirs continued to own Winestead Hall.[3][4]

In 1823 inhabitants in the village numbered 129. Occupations included six farmers.[5]

The old Post Office in Winestead

The parish church, St Germain, is a Grade I listed building.[6]

The White Hall is a Grade II* listed building.[7]

Winestead was served from 1854 to 1964 by Winestead railway station on the Hull and Holderness Railway.[8]

Outside links

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References

  1. The Seats of Nobility, Gentry and Clergy in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1840 (GENUKI)
  2. Winestead Parish information from Bulmers' 1892 (GENUKI)
  3. East Riding Antiquarian Society (1899). Transactions. 7. https://books.google.com/books?id=L2AJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=thomas+blackborne+thoroton&lr=. 
  4. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. p. 231. https://books.google.com/books?id=hzwZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA231&dq=thomas+blackborne+thoroton&lr=. 
  5. Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); pages 400, 401
  6. National Heritage List 1161091: Church of St Germain (Grade I listing)
  7. National Heritage List 1310373: The White Hall
  8. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.