User:Richardb43/Winterton-0n-Sea-history notes

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==[1892 Kelly's Directory]== also [1896 Kelly's], [1879 Kelly's]
 * Fishing village - 1891 population 715 (1871 - 675)
 * 1295 Acres (excluding 220 acres sea-beach and warren) (1896 - 1,370 acres, excl 118 acres) (1879 - 1273 acres)

A most dangerous part of the coast
 * "In ancient times the right to wreckage was appurtenant to the manor"
 * 1850 - Trinity Board placed a buoy at Winterton Ness.
 * Coast Guard station. (1896 - 7 men, 1 chief officer)
 * National Life Boat Institution
 * surfboat in 1859
 * sailing life boat in 1881
 * Lighthouse - nearly 70 feet high, prismatic reflector

Buildings of note
 * church of Holy Trinity and All Saints (early 14th Century). Thoroughly restored 1878. Plenty of detail in the Source record.
 * primitive Methodist Chapel, built 1876.
 * Board school built 1849, enlarged 1877, for 250 children, average attendance 200. (1896 - Avg 187)
 * Hill House, seat of the Earl of Winterton, the Tuurnour family.

Commerce Rateable value ₤1,527 (1896 - ₤1,519) (1879 - ₤1,747)
 * about 150 men employed in the herring and mackerel fisheries.
 * public houses, accommodation - Three Mariners, Fisherman's Return (1896, add 1 set of apartments)
 * 1 "shopkeeper", 1 draper, 4 grocers, 1 baker (1896 - 3 shopkeepers, baker, dressmaker, boot & shoe maker) (1879 - 1 shopkeeper, 1 grocer, 1 baker)
 * Post Office /Annuity & Insurance office (1896 - Winteron Provident Friendly Society)
 * 2 millers (wind) (1896, 1 only)
 * 1 market gardener, 4 farmers (chief crops what, oats & barley) (1896 - 3 farmers)
 * bricklayer, carpenter (1896 - 2 bricklayers)
 * 2 carriers (1896 - 2)