Waithe (or Waythe) is a hamlet and

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in the

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district of

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, England. It is on the A16, south from

Holton-le-Clay Holton-le-Clay is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, around south of Grimsby. History Ditched enclosures and boundaries of possible prehistoric or Roman origin have been found, and earthworks of ...

and north from

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History

The name 'Waithe' comes from the

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''wæd'' meaning 'ford'. In the

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account Waithe is written as "Wade", in the Haverstoe

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of the

North Riding of Lindsey The North Riding of Lindsey was a division of the Lindsey, Lincolnshire, Lindsey Parts of Lincolnshire, part of Lincolnshire in England. It consisted of the north-eastern part of the county, and included the Bradley-Haverstoe (wapentake), Bradley ...

. In 1086 Waithe contained 30.7 households, four villagers and one freemen, 0.3 ploughlands and of meadow. In 1066

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was held by

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, this transferred to

Odo of Bayeux Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was a Norman nobleman who was a bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and was made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal half-brother of duke, and later king, William the Conqueror, and w ...

in 1086, with

Ivo Taillebois Ivo Taillebois (died 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman, sheriff and tenant-in-chief in 11th-century England. Life Ivo Taillebois was a Norman most probably from Taillebois, now a small hamlet in Saint-Gervais de Briouze, Calvados.K.S.B. Ke ...

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to William I. The village is the site of a

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, indicated by

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, trackways and ditch

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, and 13th- to 18th-century pottery finds. Waithe is recorded in the 1872 '' White's Directory'' (under the alternative spelling of 'Waith'), as a small parish of 58 people within of "fertile" land, whose

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was also the

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of the

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. St Martin's Church was described as "a neat structure" of Early English style which was partly rebuilt in 1869 for more than £2,000, the cost born by the lord of the manor. The

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held his office under a

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, and lived at Grainsby where he was the rector of that parish. At the time, the parish was entitled to send one person to the

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s at

Ashby cum Fenby Ashby cum Fenby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, approximately south from Grimsby, and just east of the A18 road. In the 2001 census the population was recorded as 248, increasing marginally to 249 at the 2 ...

. Occupations listed in 1872 were the parish clerk, two farmers, one of whom was at Waith Top, a grazier, and a corn miller at Waith Mill. In 1885 ''

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'' reported that agricultural production in the still 780-acre parish was chiefly wheat, oats, turnips and barley, farmed under a four-field system.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 698

Landmarks

Waithe

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listed redundant church is dedicated to St Martin. The church was rebuilt in 1861 by

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, leaving only the Early English

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s and tower as elements of an earlier

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church.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 330; Methuen & Co. Ltd Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' pp. 415, 416; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. The church was repaired and conserved in 2005. Waithe water mill 2022

Other listed structures include Grade II Waithe

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, dating from 1813.

References

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