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Winteringham, a long straggling village, on a bold declivity, on the south side of the Humber, 7.5.miles W. of Barton, has now in its parish 691 inhabitants, and about 3050 acres of land. Lord Carrington owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor, which was anciently held by the Marmions, one of whom, in the reign of Edward 11., obtained a charter for a market here, but it was discontinued several centuries ago. A pleasure fair is held on July 14th. The copyholds are subject to small certain fines. In this parish, the great Roman road,Ermine street, is continued across the broad channel of the Humber, by means of Brough ferry. Stukely says, "upon a rising ground, at the end of the road, a little to the right, and a half a mile to the east of Winteringham, stood the Roman town, Ad Abuta, of which the people have ploughed up great foundations within memory; `tis now a common, skirted by the marshes of the Humber. The city was ploughed up about six years (1700,) and great quantities of antiquities found, now lost; great pavements, chimney stones, &c., often breaking their ploughs. In several they found streets made of sea sand and gravel.
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