WINWICK
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"WINWICK, a parish partly in the hundred of Leightonstone, county Hunts, and
partly in that of Polebrook, county Northampton, 7 miles south-east of Oundle,
and 12 north-west of Huntingdon. The village is situated about 4 miles off the
road from Oundle to Huntingdon, on the borders of Northamptonshire. The
soil is clayey. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Ely, value £70.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, has been recently repaired. The
charities, including Ruff's bequest for the poor, produce about £20 per
annum."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- Monumental inscriptions of this parish have not yet been recorded by the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- The church of All Saints consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, south trancept, south aisle, west tower and
modern south porch. The walls are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered with lead
and stone slates.
- The church is not mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 but the 12th century south doorway points to a stone
church of that period. The chancel, nave and south aisle were rebuilt in the middle of the 13th century, and the
north arcade was formed and the aisle added about 1325. The chancel arch was rebuilt to the full width of the
chancel in about 1340, and the south aisle wall were probably raised and reconstructed about the same time. The
south transept was built in the early part of the 15th century, and the west tower towards the end of that century.
- Early in the 16th century the clearstory was added to the nave, thje whole of the roofs were renewed and the
north aisle largely rebuilt. The church was drastically restored in 1864, when the south transept, south aisle
clearstory, porch and the upper part of spire were rebuilt. The spire (98 ft.) was struck by lightening on 25th
June 1935, after which it was restored.
- The following are available in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- Baptisms: 1538/9-1757, 1757-1812, 1813-1864.
- Banns: 1754-1812.
- Marriages: 1539/40-1745/6, 1754-1812, 1813-1836, 1837-1914, 1916-1944.
- Burials: 1539-1757, 1757-1812.
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1605-9, 1612, 1617-19, 1626-7, 1631, 1660-8/1690-2, 1694-5, 1698-1702, 1704-7, 1709-14,
1716-26, 1728-35, 1738-40, 1743-6, 1748-1812/1813-24/1825-35, 1851-5.
- The
Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes
include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series:
1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- The parish of Winwick was originally in the Oundle Registration District from 1st July 1837. In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Sawtry sub-District. It is now part of the Huntingdon District.
- Wineuuiche (xi cent.),
- Wynwyke (xvi cent.).
- Winwick was in the Oundle Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
- Population in 1801 - 110
- Population in 1851 - 272
- Population in 1901 - 108
- Population in 1951 - 128
- Population in 1971 - 91
- Population in 1991 - 97
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