West Butterwick is a village and

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, England. It lies in the

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, approximately north-east from Epworth and 4 miles north from

Owston Ferry Owston Ferry is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the west bank of the River Trent, and north from Gainsborough. It had a total resident population of 1,128 in 2001 including Kelfield. This increased t ...

, on the western bank of the

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opposite its neighbour

East Butterwick East Butterwick is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the Isle of Axholme, about north-east from Epworth and 4 miles north from Owston Ferry, on the eastern bank of the River Trent The Trent is the ...

. The name 'Butterwick' comes from the

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''butere-wick'' meaning '

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farm'. West Butterwick Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary. It was built in 1841 of beige brick, with a thin octagonal west tower. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 419; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. A further Grade II listed building is The Old Vicarage, built in 1863 by James Fowler of Louth. An 1824 listed windmill

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is at Mill Farm on North Street. In 1885 ''

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'' recorded a Primitive Methodist and a

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chapel. Within a parish area of were grown potatoes, wheat, oats and beans.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 347 Originally a township in Owston parish, West Butterwick was made an

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in its own right in 1841. The 2001 Census found 776 people in 312 households, increasing to a population of 795 in 341 households at the 2011 census.

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