West Butterwick
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West Butterwick is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the Isle of Axholme, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". north-east from Epworth and 4 miles north from Owston Ferry, on the western bank of the River Trent opposite its neighbour East Butterwick.
The name 'Butterwick' comes from the Old English butere-wick meaning 'butter farm'.[1]
West Butterwick Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary.[2] It was built in 1841 of beige brick, with a thin octagonal west tower.[3] A further Grade II listed building is The Old Vicarage, built in 1863 by James Fowler of Louth.[4] An 1824 listed windmill tower is at Mill Farm on North Street.[5]
In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded a Primitive Methodist and a General Baptist chapel. Within a parish area of Script error: No such module "convert". were grown potatoes, wheat, oats and beans.[6]
Originally a township in Owston parish, West Butterwick was made an ecclesiastical parish in its own right in 1841.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The 2001 Census found 776 people in 312 households,[7] increasing to a population of 795 in 341 households at the 2011 census.[8]
References
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- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 419; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 347
- ↑ "West Butterwick CP (Parish)", Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 August 2011
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External links
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- "West Butterwick", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2011
- West Butterwick Parish Council. Retrieved 15 August 2011
- "West Butterwick", The Isle of Axholme Family History Society. Retrieved 15 August 2011
- "Isle of Axholme", isleofaxholme.net. Retrieved 15 August 2011
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