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Witham on the Hill

Coordinates: 52°44′10″N 0°26′28″W / 52.73616°N 0.44102°W / 52.73616; -0.44102
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Witham on the Hill
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St Andrew, Witham on the Hill
Population260 (2011 census)
OS grid referenceTF053165
• London85 mi (137 km) SSE
Civil parish
  • Witham on the Hill
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBOURNE
Postcode districtPE10
Dialling code01778
PoliceLincolnshire
FireLincolnshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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52°44′10″N 0°26′28″W / 52.73616°N 0.44102°W / 52.73616; -0.44102

Witham on the Hill is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.[1] The population of the civil parish was 260 at the 2011 census.[2]

History

Witham Hall

The Rev. Woolsey Johnson (who was a descendant of Robert Johnson, Archdeacon of Leicester, who was the founder of Uppingham School and Oakham School)[3] built the Grade II listed[4] Georgian manor house Witham Hall, which is mentioned by Nikolaus Pevsner in Buildings of England,[5] as a private residence in 1752.[3] Since 1959, it has hosted the coeducational preparatory Witham Hall School.[3]

The Parish Church of Saint Andrew

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew. Its tower and steeple were rebuilt in a medieval revival style by the Stamford architect George Portwood in 1737–8.[6][7] The church's graveyard contains the grave of the choral educator James William Webb-Jones[8] and that of his wife Barbara Bindon Moody,[9] who was the granddaughter of Major-General Richard Clement Moody,[10][11] the founder of British Columbia.[12][13][14]

Witham Hall School's historic headmaster Peter Stanley Lyons founded their choir and its tradition of singing from the top of the church's tower on Ascension Day.[15] In 2007, Lyons had a memorial service at the church,[15] which is adjacent to the school whose renown he had built.[16]

Witham Hall School’s founder J. W. E. ('Bill') Banks was buried at the church, where he had a memorial service, after his death in 2005.[15]

Other features

The original village-stocks and whipping-post are preserved under a newer canopy.[17]

The Six Bells public house was built in 1905 by the architect A. N. Prentice and is Grade II listed.[18] It is on the road to the A6121. When The Six Bells was built, the nearby parish church did have six bells, but in 1932 they were increased to eight.

The nearest state primary school is on Creeton Road in Little Bytham.[19]

In 2002, West Farm (on the Little Bytham road) had trials for GM rapeseed planted by Aventis.[20][21]

Geography

The village is between the east and west tributaries of the River Glen, and despite its name, is not on the top of its 'hill', which reaches a peak 1 mile (1.6 km) west towards Careby. It is approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the A6121 Bourne-Stamford road. To the west is Little Bytham, and to the east are Manthorpe and Toft. The predominant landowner in the area is the Grimsthorpe Estate.

The civil parish covers a large area, extending north into Grimsthorpe Park and Dobbins Wood where it meets the boundary of Edenham, and the boundary with Toft with Lound and Manthorpe is mostly along the A6121. Manthorpe, Bourne used to be part of the civil parish.

References

  1. ↑ "Witham on the Hill". Parishes in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire county council. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "History, Witham Hall School".
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Witham Hall and three archways (Grade II) (1240121)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1964). The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire: Entry for Witham Hall, in Witham-On-The-Hill. Penguin Books. p. 715.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "the church (348189)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  7. ↑ "A Short History of St Andrew's Church, Witham on the Hill" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Obituary for James William Webb-Jones, The Cheddar Valley Gazette, 7 January 1966
  9. ↑ The Grantham Journal, 28 June 1974, p. 19
  10. ↑ "Entry for James William Webb-Jones, Headmasters of Vanbrugh Castle School". Vanbrugh Castle School.
  11. ↑ "Vanbrugh Castle School, A Boy's History of the School".
  12. ↑ Barman, Jean (2007). The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. University of Toronto Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-4426-9184-1.
  13. ↑ Drummond, Sir Henry (1908). "XXIII". Rambling Recollections, Vol. 1. Macmillan and Co., London. p. 272.
  14. ↑ Edward, Mallandaine (1887). The British Columbia Directory, containing a General Directory of Business Men and Householders…. E. Mallandaine and R. T. Williams, Broad Street, Victoria, British Columbia. p. 215 in New Westminster District Directory.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "The History of Witham Hall, by Steve and Sue Weatherill". Witham Hall School. 2009.
  16. ↑ "Obituary of Peter S. Lyons", Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 20 April 2007.
  17. ↑ Historic England. "National monument record for stocks (348192)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  18. ↑ Historic England. "The Six Bells Public House (1240120)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  19. ↑ "Welcome to The Bythams Primary School". www.bythams-school.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  20. ↑ "GM weeds finally destroyed". Archived press release. Friends of The Earth. 7 December 2001.
  21. ↑ Lean, Geoffrey (28 October 2007). "GM: The Secret Files". The Independent. The spectre of GM contamination has cost John Turner dear. A succession of trials near his 250 acre farm in Little Bytham, south Lincolnshire, between 2000 and 2002 forced him to stop growing certain crops – suffering heavy financial losses as a result.
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