The name 'Butterwick' comes from the Old Englishbutere-wick meaning 'butter farm'.[1]
West Butterwick Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary.[2] It was built in 1841 of beige brick, with a thin octagonal west tower.[3] A further Grade II listed building is The Old Vicarage, built in 1863 by James Fowler of Louth.[4] An 1824 listed windmill tower is at Mill Farm on North Street.[5]
west, butterwick, confused, with, butterwick, lincolnshire, village, civil, parish, north, lincolnshire, england, lies, isle, axholme, approximately, miles, north, east, from, epworth, miles, north, from, owston, ferry, western, bank, river, trent, opposite, n. Not to be confused with Butterwick Lincolnshire West Butterwick is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire England It lies in the Isle of Axholme approximately 4 miles 6 km north east from Epworth and 4 miles north from Owston Ferry on the western bank of the River Trent opposite its neighbour East Butterwick West ButterwickSt Mary s church West ButterwickWest ButterwickLocation within LincolnshirePopulation795 2011 OS grid referenceSE 83370 05848 London145 mi 233 km SUnitary authorityNorth LincolnshireCeremonial countyLincolnshireRegionYorkshire and the HumberCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townScunthorpePostcode districtDN17PoliceHumbersideFireHumbersideAmbulanceEast MidlandsUK ParliamentBrigg and GooleList of places UK England Lincolnshire 53 32 34 N 0 44 36 W 53 542663 N 0 743358 W 53 542663 0 743358The name Butterwick comes from the Old English butere wick meaning butter farm 1 West Butterwick Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary 2 It was built in 1841 of beige brick with a thin octagonal west tower 3 A further Grade II listed building is The Old Vicarage built in 1863 by James Fowler of Louth 4 An 1824 listed windmill tower is at Mill Farm on North Street 5 In 1885 Kelly s Directory recorded a Primitive Methodist and a General Baptist chapel Within a parish area of 2 307 acres 9 km2 were grown potatoes wheat oats and beans 6 Originally a township in Owston parish West Butterwick was made an ecclesiastical parish in its own right in 1841 citation needed The 2001 Census found 776 people in 312 households 7 increasing to a population of 795 in 341 households at the 2011 census 8 References edit Key to English Place names Historic England Church of St Mary 1083231 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 15 August 2011 Pevsner Nikolaus Harris John The Buildings of England Lincolnshire p 419 Penguin 1964 revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989 Yale University Press ISBN 0 300 09620 8 Historic England The Old Vicarage 1346713 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 15 August 2011 Historic England Windmill Tower at Mill Farm 1372899 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 15 August 2011 Kelly s Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885 p 347 West Butterwick CP Parish Office for National Statistics Retrieved 15 August 2011 Civil Parish population 2011 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics Retrieved 3 June 2016 External links edit nbsp Media related to West Butterwick at Wikimedia Commons West Butterwick Genuki org uk Retrieved 15 August 2011 West Butterwick Parish Council Retrieved 15 August 2011 West Butterwick The Isle of Axholme Family History Society Retrieved 15 August 2011 Isle of Axholme isleofaxholme net Retrieved 15 August 2011Portals nbsp England nbsp United Kingdom Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title West Butterwick amp oldid 1088409832, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
