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Whitton, a village and ferry on the Humber, about 3 miles below Trent falls, and 9 miles W. of Barton, has in its parish 217 souls and 1240a. 1r. 15p. of land. Marmaduke Constable, Esq., owns nearly all the soil, and is impropriator and lord of the manor, which is parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster. The church (St. John The Baptist,) was rebuilt many years ago, when its fine Norman doorway was destroyed, but the ancient font is still preserved. The vicarage valued in K.B. £6. 10s. was augmented with £200 of Q.A.B. in 1767, and has long been united with that of Aukborough. At the enclosure, about 70 years ago, land was allotted in lieu of tithes. Opposite Whitton, there, is in the Humber, a bed of silt, called Whitton sands, more than a mile broad, and two miles in length, which is left bare at low water, and upon which steamers and other vessels are often left aground until the return of the tide, and in stormy weather sometimes wrecked. The ferry boat here takes passengers to and from the steam packets, or carries them across the river to Brough, or Weighton Lock. In the gravel pit here, a very remarkable dip in the of the strata is exposed, exhibiting, among the boulder stones, ammonites, gryphites, and other fossils and shells, similar to those in the debris on the shore, where many conglomerate masses have fallen from the cliff; near the summit of which a petrifying steam comes from an incrusted rock. The Ferry House is at Brough, on the Yorkshire side of the Humber.
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