OS Grid Reference: 53°27'N 0°48'W
Name Origin: Old English stocc hyþ landing-place made of stocks.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
STOCKWITH (EAST), a hamlet in the parish of GAINSBOROUGH, wapentake of CORRINGHAM, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 3¾ miles (N.N.W.) from Gainsborough, containing 224 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
STOCKWITH (WEST), a chapelry in the parish of MISTERTON, North-clay division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Gainsborough, containing 618 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Ten poor children are instructed for £10 a year, paid by the trustee of the late William Huntington. It is within the peculiar jurisdiction of the manorial court of Gringley on the Hill.
Directory of Nottinghamshire, White, 1853:
Misterton Parish is situated at the north-east angle of the county, where the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal terminate in the Trent. It contains 1,743 inhabitants and 4,746 acres of land, of which about 636 acres are in West Stockwith township, and 654 inhabitants, which maintains its poor separately from Misterton. A great part of it was formerly a swampy bog, but it is now drained and improved. In the higher parts of the parish are found both foliated and fibrous gypsum or plaster, used both for floors and ornamental work.
West Stockwith village, the south end of which is in Misterton township, forms a long line of buildings on the west bank of the Trent, at the point where the Idle and the Chesterfield Canal fall into the river, four miles north-north-west of Gainsborough. It has risen from the rank of a small hamlet to that of a flourishing river port, or creek.
The township contains about 700 inhabitants, and 660 acres of land, bounded on the south by the Idle, and on the north by the Heck Dike, a small beck which divides it from Lincolnshire, and gives name to three of its farms. The Duke of Portland is lord of the manor, but the land belongs to various owners, and is tithe free. The Chapel of Rest was built in 1722, pursuant to the will of William Huntington, who in 1715, bequested £740 for the erection of a chapel and ten almshouses in his shipyard. The chapel he endowed with a house and six acres of land, now occupied by the incumbent, and a farm at Gunhouse, consisting of 78a 2r 27p, and now let for £215 per annum. The benefice is a donative in the gift of the trustees, and is now enjoyed by the Rev. H. Christopher Barker. The chapel contains the remains of the founder, who was first interred at Misterton, but was removed here after the chapel was completed. The almshouses, for the reception of poor widows of mariners and ship carpenters, were endowed by the benelovent founder with the rents of land and buildings in West Stockwith and Misterton (now let for £110 per annum), subject to the following charitable payments, viz.: an annuity of £10 for a schoolmaster to teach the poor children of seamen and shipwrights to read; and 3s 6d weekly to be distributed every Sunday at the chapel, in penny and twopenny loaves, amongst the poor of the township, who also partake of Clarke's and Edlington's charities, as is already noticed with Misterton. In 1788, £34 was received as the arrears of Edlington's charity, and is now vested with Mrs Pearson, who pays for it 34s yearly, which with the rent of part of Crabtree Close, held by Huntington's trustees, and purchased with £100 left in 1777 by William Hall, is included in the weekly distribution of bread at the chapel. The almshouses, which consist of five rooms on the first, and five rooms on the second floor, are now only occupied by ten pensioners, who have each £8 per annum. A small Methodist chapel was built here in 1803. A fair for horses and cattle is held in the village annually on September 4th, but in the 8th year of Henry III, it is noticed as having both a market and a fair.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Stockwith, East, a township and a chapelry in Gainsborough parish, Lincolnshire. The township lies on the river Trent, 3¾ miles NNW of Gainsborough railway station. Post town, Gainsborough. Acreage, 488; population, 419. The chapelry was constituted in. 1846. Population, 497. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Walkerith annexed, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £246 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. There are two Methodist chapels.
Stockwith, West, a township, with a village, in Misterton parish, Notts, on the river Trent, at the junction of the Chesterfield Canal, opposite East Stockwith in Lincolnshire, 1 mile from Misterton station on a branch of the G.N.R., and 4 miles NNW of Gainsborough. It has a fair on 4 Sept. for horses and cattle, a ferry, and a post, and money order office under Gainsborough; telegraph office, Misterton. Acreage, 688; population, 723. The living is a donative in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £160 with residence. The chapel of St Mary was erected in 1722 and restored and reseated in 1887; it is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a police station, and some almshonses.
The Population of West Stockwith was 530 in the 1801 census, 654 in that of 1851, and 667 in 1901.
Associated Family: Wroot
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