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Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for
1900 |
East Halton is a long irregularly
built village and parish, extending to the
creek called Halton Skitter, on the river
Humber, from which the village is 1 mile,
and 2 east from Thornton Abbey station on
the New Holland branch of the Great Central
(late M.S. and L.) railway and 7 east-by-south
from Barton, in the North Lindsey division
of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division
of Yarborough wapentake, Glanford Brigg
union, petty sessional division and county
court district of Barton-on-Humber, rural
deanery of Yarborough No. 1, archdeaconry
of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church
of St. Peter is an ancient edifice of stone,
in the Early English style, consisting of
chancel, nave and aisles, south porch and
a low western tower containing 3 bells:
there are three small stained windows at
the east end: the church was completely
restored in 1869 and has 280 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1574. The living
is a vicarage, with that of Killingholme
annexed (in 1896), joint net yearly value
about £200, with 150 acres of glebe
here, in the gift of the Earl of Yarborough,
and held since 1892 by the Rev. George William
Julius Jacoby. Here is a Wesleyan chapel,
built in 1889, at the cost of £918,
and with 230 sittings, a Primitive Methodist
chapel, erected in 1878, and an Oddfellows'
Hall, built in 1878. John Stevenson esq.
who is lord of the manor, the Earl of Yarborough
P.C., J. Hewitson esq. Mrs Francis Riggall
and Messrs. John George Crowther and Charles
Dishman are the principal landowners. The
soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops
are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The
area is 3,321 acres of land, 4 of water
and 94 of foreshore; rateable value, £3,141;
the population in 18981 was 505.
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