WINTERTON is a parish and fishing village 1 mile north of
Hemsby station on the Eastern and Midlands railway, about 8 miles
north-by-west from Yarmouth and 21 from Norwich, in the Northern
division of the county, incorporated hundreds of East and West Flegg,
county court district of Great Yarmouth, rural deanery of Flegg and
archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The church of Holy Trinity and All Saints was built in the early part of the fifteenth century and
was in 1878 thoroughly restored and re-seated, to hold 280 persons;
the greater part of the expense was borne by Mrs. Burnley Hume, in
memory of Joseph Hume, who resided at Burnley Hall, to whom there is
a tablet: the work was carried out from designs drawn by Mr. Herbert
Green, the architect, of Norwich and London: it is a structure of
stone, and has chancel, nave, aisles, porch and parvise, with a fine
embattled square tower, 127 feet high, commanding a fine view of the
ocean: the church and tower were again restored in 1883. The register
dates from about the year 1717. The living is a rectory, with the
chapelry of East Somerton annexed; the tithes are commuted at
£544 11s. 8d. with 30 acres of glebe and house, in the gift of
and held since 1867 by the Rev. William Green M.A.
of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Hundred river has reversed its
course, and now flows from the sea instead of into it at this place.
There is a coastguard station. In 1859 a surf boat was placed here
by the National Life Boat Institution. Here is a lighthouse, situated
on elevated ground, the tower nearly 70 feet high and illuminated by
a prismatic reflector. About 150 fishermen are employed in the
herring and mackerel fisheries. Winterton had a market and fair,
which have long been obsolete. Hill House is the seat of Mrs. Hume,
and has very fine ranges of hot-houses and conservatories. The
chief landowners are the Earl of Winterton, who is lord of the manor,
F. Charsley esq. and Mrs. Hume. The soil is light; subsoil, gravel
and sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The parish
comprises 1,273 acres of land, exclusive of a large extent of
sea-beach and warren; rateable value, £1,649; the population in
1881 was 749.
WINTERTON NESS, now
locally known as HUMBESHEAD, and one of the
chief promontories on the east coast, is within this parish, and a
most dangerous part of the coast. The Trinity Board, in 1850, at
the request of the late Joseph Hume esq. M.P.
the financial reformer, placed a buoy on it. The coast is very
dangerous to shipping, and in ancient times the right to wreckage
was appurtenant to the manor, and was a subject of dispute between
the Abbot of St. Benet's-at-Holme and the Prior of Norwich. The
right to wreckage is the subject of a letter from William Peacock
steward to Sir John Paxton, the lord of the manor (19th Nov. 1477),
published in the Paston letters.
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POST & MONEY
ORDER OFFICE & Savings
Bank.— Mrs. Ann Bullock, receiver. Letters from Yarmouth arrive
at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. Martham is the nearest telegraph office.
Coast Guard Station, — Barry, officer in charge
SCHOOLS:—
CARRIER TO YARMOUTH. — Thomas Smith, daily
Transcription © Copyright E.C.("Paddy") Apling, February, 1999; links updated May 2010.
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White's 1836; 1845; 1864; and 1883 [GENUKI-NFK]
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