WINTERTON, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln. The town stands 7½ miles WSW of Barton-upon-Humber r. station; appears, from the discovery at it of tesselated pavements and other Roman relics, to occupy the site of a Roman settlement; is a seat of petty-sessions; carries on the making of machines and agricultural implements; and has a post-office‡ under Brigg, a hotel, a police station, a temperance hall, an early English church with Norman tower, two Methodist chapels, a national school, charities £16, a weekly corn-market on Wednesday, and cattle fairs on the Tuesday before Palm-Sunday and 23 Sept.—The parish comprises 3,628 acres. Real property, £9,110; of which £70 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,665; in 1861, 1,780. Houses, 401. The property is subdivided. W. Hall is the seat of W. Kupe, Esq. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £213.* Patron, the Bishop of L.—The sub-district contains 12 parishes. Acres, 56,316. Pop., 9,806. Houses, 2,091.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))