Witham on the Hill

Witham on the Hill
St Andrew, Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill is located in Lincolnshire
Witham on the Hill
Witham on the Hill
Location within Lincolnshire
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
UK Parliament
  • Grantham and Stamford

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

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 renowned coeducational preparatory Witham Hall School, which marked its 50th year in 2009.[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 renowned choral educator James William Webb-Jones[8] and that of his wife Barbara Bindon Moody, who was the granddaughter of the founder of British Columbia Richard Clement Moody.[9]

Other features

The original village stocks and whipping post are preserved under a new canopy.[10]

The Six Bells public house was built in 1905 by the architect A. N. Prentice and is Grade II listed.[11] 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.[12]

In 2002, West Farm (on the Little Bytham road) had trials for GM rapeseed planted by Aventis.[13][14]

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.

Witham-on-the-Hill stocks

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. ^ a b c "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. ^ "Headmasters". vcs.atwebpages.com. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  10. ^ Historic England. "National monument record for stocks (348192)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  11. ^ Historic England. "The Six Bells Public House (1240120)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Welcome to The Bythams Primary School". www.bythams-school.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  13. ^ "GM weeds finally destroyed". Archived press release. Friends of The Earth. 7 December 2001.
  14. ^ 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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