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Winterton is a small market town, having two fairs for cattle, &c., on the Tuesday before Palm Sunday and on the 23rd September., a feast or pleasure fair on July 6th, and a weekly corn market every Wednesday, established some years ago, and generally attended by dealers form Wakefield, Doncaster, and other places. Being situated on the eastern side of the wold hills, 2.5 miles south of the Humber, nearly 2 miles west of the Ancholme, 8 miles W.S.W. of Barton, and 10 miles N.N.W. of Brigg, it enjoys all the freshness of the sea breeze, without the excessive moisture of the places on the shore of the Humber; and many of its inhabitants live beyond the general standard of human longevity. Its parish contained 773 inhabitants in 1801; 1015, in 1815, in 1821; 1295, in 1831; and 1373, in 1841; and comprises 3628 acres of land, including a tract of fertile cars and ings, near the River Ancholme. This was one of the 33 lordships given by William the Conqueror to Norman D`arcy, whose descendants held it for several centuries. Samuel Slater, Esq., of North Carlton, is now lord of the manor, but the greater part of the soil belongs to various freeholders the largest of whom are W.C.W. Clarke, Jph. Dent, John Richardson, J. Baratt, A. Wilkinson, and C. and J. Holgate, Esqrs., and Lady Boynton who owns and occupies the Hall. Messrs. Richardson and Holgate, and Mrs Lawrence are the impropriators.
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