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"HAINTON, a parish in the E. division of the wapentake or Wraggoe, parts of Lindsey, county Lincoln, 5 miles S.W. of Wragby, its post town, and 7 S.W. of Market Rasen, its nearest railway station. The soil is clay and sand, and the land chiefly arable. Some Roman remains have been discovered here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, value £240, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice, with tower surmounted by a spire, and containing a clock and three bells. In the interior are several monuments to the Heneage family, and a brass to Sir T. Heneage, bearing date 1553. The Roman Catholics have a place of worship, and there is a National school. Hainton Hall, the seat of G. F. Heneage, Esq., who is lord of the manor, its an ancient mansion, and has been in the Heneage family since the reign of Henry III. This is a meet for the South Wold hounds."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2020
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The Library at Louth will prove useful in your research.
| St Mary, Hainton, Church of England |
- The parish was in the Binbrook sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 636 |
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2112 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2384 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3406 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2609 |
| St Mary, Hainton, Church of England |
| St Francis de Salles, Hainton, Roman Catholic |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church was built in the Norman period, probably in the 1400s.
- The church seats 180.
- The church is Grade I listed with British Heritage.
- There are photographs of the church at the Lincolnshire Churches website.
- Here is a photo of St. Mary's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
The Anglican parish register dates from 1674.
- The LFHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
- The HENEAGE family who held this parish embraced the Catholic faith. A Catholic chapel was erected in the parish in 1836 and dedicated to Saint Francis of Sales.
- For more on researching this chapell, see our Non-Conformist Church Records page.
- The North Lincolnshire Library holds copies of the Hainton parish register for 1631 through 1961.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Binbrook sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Hainton is both a village and a parish. It lies 10 miles west of Louth on the road to Wragby. South Willingham parish lies to the south and Sixhills parish to the north. The parish covers about 2,300 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A157 west out of Louth. You'll pass through Burgh on Bain and the next village should be Hainton. Alternatively, you could take the A158 trunk road northwest out of Horncastle, turn west at Benniworth and proceed to Hainton.
- There are photographs from inside the church at the FLICKR website, see below.
- See our touring page for visitor services.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"HAINTON, a parish in the E. division of the wapentake or Wraggoe, parts of Lindsey, county Lincoln, 5 miles S.W. of Wragby, its post town, and 7 S.W. of Market Rasen, its nearest railway station. The soil is clay and sand, and the land chiefly arable. Some Roman remains have been discovered here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, value £240, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice, with tower surmounted by a spire, and containing a clock and three bells. In the interior are several monuments to the Heneage family, and a brass to Sir T. Heneage, bearing date 1553. The Roman Catholics have a place of worship, and there is a National school. Hainton Hall, the seat of G. F. Heneage, Esq., who is lord of the manor, its an ancient mansion, and has been in the Heneage family since the reign of Henry III. This is a meet for the South Wold hounds."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hainton to another place.
- In 1808, Hainton and Donington established an annual Ploughing Match, held every November.
- In the late 1800s there used to be a train station just outside the village on the Louth and Lincoln branch of the Great Northern Railway.
- The Heneage Arms Hotel, named in honor of the prominent Heneage family, was run by Hy. Edwin FLINTOFF in 1913. In 1930, Geo. W. HOBBINS was the proprietor.
- J. HANNAH-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Heneage Arms on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
- Hainton Hall was a large and ancient manor house which stood on 145 acres.
- Hainton Hall was the seat of the HENEAGE family for time immemorial.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF182845 (Lat/Lon: 53.344608, -0.225306), Hainton which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Pat COOK provides letters written by Joe SMITH, born in Hainton in 1896, starting from just before the Great War until his death in 1916. These are letters to his devoted mother, telling of his enlistment and life in the Royal Navy, his training, uniform, girl friends, sleeping in a hammock, and stories of life on the ship. Please enjoy Joe's letters home.
For a photograph of the Hainton Roll of Honour and a list of the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.
- The name "Hainton" is pronounced by locals as "Ainton".
- The name is given in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Haintone".
- The name is from the Old English "Haegen + tun", which means "farmstead in an enclosure".
- This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the east division of the ancient Wraggoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district and in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Wragby petty session hearings on the first Thursday of every month.
- A school was first built here in 1846-7, partially funded by the HENEAGE family.
- For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.