Manton, Lincolnshire
{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name= Cleatham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 138491.jpg
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| static_image_caption= Cleatham Hall
| country = England
| official_name= Manton
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| coordinates = {{coord|53.511136|-0.595155|display=inline,title}}
| population= 123
| population_ref= (2011)
|civil_parish = Manton
|unitary_england= North Lincolnshire
|lieutenancy_england= Lincolnshire
| region= Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster= Scunthorpe
| post_town= Gainsborough
| postcode_district = DN21
| postcode_area= DN
| dial_code=
| os_grid_reference= SE932025
| london_distance_mi= 145
| london_direction= S
}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126288&c=Manton&d=16&e=62&g=6382507&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1461063369438&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|access-date=19 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} The village is situated just south from the town of Scunthorpe, and about {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} south-west from the town of Brigg. The parish includes the hamlet of Cleatham.{{cite web|title=Manton|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10435377&c_id=10001043|work=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=11 July 2011}} Cleatham was a civil parish between 1866 and 1936.{{cite web|title=Cleatham|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10407904|work=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=11 July 2011}}
Geography
File:St.Hybald's church, Manton, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 133334.jpgThe 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.{{NHLE|desc=St Hybald|num=1346833|grade=II|accessdate=11 July 2011}}
The church was made redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in 1998, and it was sold for residential use in 2003.{{cite web|title=Manton|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Manton/|publisher=Genuki.org.uk|access-date=11 July 2011}} 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.Judith Maltby, Prayer Book and People, p.70
Cleatham Hall is a Grade II listed house dating from 1855 but with earlier origins.{{NHLE |desc=Cleatham House |num=1083030|grade=II |accessdate=11 July 2011| fewer-links=x}}
Cleatham bowl barrow is a Bronze Age scheduled monument located about {{convert|200|yd|m|sigfig=1}} to the east of Cleatham Hall.{{NHLE|desc=Cleatham Round Barrow|num=1007729|accessdate=11 July 2011| fewer-links=x}}
History
The last known player of the Lincolnshire bagpipes, John Hunsley, lived in Manton in the mid-1800s.A commentator the 1881 Oxford Journals' [https://books.google.com/books?id=YZKE_wpQImUC&dq=%22john+hunsley%22+lincolnshire&pg=PA95 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."
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=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.
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Further reading
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=D-8NAAAAQAAJ&dq=Manton%2C+Lincolnshire&pg=PA571 Manton] in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the Port of Hull and Neighbourhood. With Map of the County. by E. R. Kelly, 1885
- {{cite journal |journal=Current Archaeology |date=July–August 2007 |volume=18, No.6 |issue=210 |pages=26–31 |title=A warning to the curious: digging an Anglo-Saxon cemetery |author=Leahy, Kevin }} Article on the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Cleatham, the third largest in England.
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