Manton, Lincolnshire

Manton is a village and civil parish in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 123.^[1] The village is situated just south from the town of Scunthorpe, and about 6 miles (10 km) south-west from the town of Brigg. The parish includes the hamlet of Cleatham.^[2] Cleatham was a civil parish between 1866 and 1936.^[3]

Manton
Cleatham Hall
Manton Location within Lincolnshire
Population	123 (2011)
OS grid reference	SE932025
• London	145 mi (233 km) S
Civil parish	Manton
Unitary authority	North Lincolnshire
Ceremonial county	Lincolnshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Gainsborough
Postcode district	DN21
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Scunthorpe
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53.511136°N 0.595155°W / 53.511136; -0.595155

Geography

St.Hybald's church, Manton

The parish church is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Saint Hybald. It was built of limestone in 1861 by J. M. Hooker, and Wheeler of Tunbridge Wells.^[4]

The church was made redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in 1998, and it was sold for residential use in 2003.^[5] Its parson from 1568 was John Robotham, who was accused of missing evening prayers and even Easter communion in order to play bowls. He had a number of legal battles with parishioners, some of whom he served a summons on during church services.^[6]

Cleatham Hall is a Grade II listed house dating from 1855 but with earlier origins.^[7]

Cleatham bowl barrow is a Bronze Age scheduled monument located about 200 yards (200 m) to the east of Cleatham Hall.^[8]

History

The last known player of the Lincolnshire bagpipes, John Hunsley, lived in Manton in the mid-1800s.^[9]

Darwin family

William Darwin (1655-1682, Charles Darwin's great-great grandfather) was from Cleatham and married Anne Waring (1664-1722) of Elston in 1680, and moved to Elston. His son would be Robert Darwin (1682-1754), Charles Darwin's great-grandfather.

References

1. "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
2. "Manton". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
3. "Cleatham". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
4. Historic England. "St Hybald (Grade II) (1346833)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
5. "Manton". Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
6. Judith Maltby, Prayer Book and People, p.70
7. Historic England. "Cleatham House (Grade II) (1083030)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
8. Historic England. "Cleatham Round Barrow (1007729)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
9. A commentator the 1881 Oxford Journals' Notes and queries, pp.95-96, noted that Hunsley played the pipes until shortly before his death, which occurred "between twenty and thirty years ago."

Further reading

• Manton in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull and Neighbourhood. With Map of the County. by E. R. Kelly, 1885
• Leahy, Kevin (July–August 2007). "A warning to the curious: digging an Anglo-Saxon cemetery". Current Archaeology. 18, No.6 (210): 26–31. Article on the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Cleatham, the third largest in England.

External links

• Media related to Manton, Lincolnshire at Wikimedia Commons