Winton, Cumbria

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Cumbria, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Millennium monument - geograph.org.uk - 526440.jpg | static_image_caption = Millennium Monument | coordinates = {{coord|54.489|-2.335|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Winton | population = 327 | population_ref = ''(2011(including Kaber))''<ref name=census2011/> | civil_parish = Winton |unitary_england= [[Westmorland and Furness]] |lieutenancy_england= [[Cumbria]] | region = North West England | constituency_westminster = [[Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Westmorland and Lonsdale]] | post_town = KIRKBY STEPHEN | postcode_district = CA17 | postcode_area = CA | dial_code = 01768 | os_grid_reference = NY7810 }}

'''Winton''' is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[Westmorland and Furness]] district of [[Cumbria]], England. It is {{convert|2.9|mi|km}} south of [[Brough, Cumbria|Brough]], and {{convert|1.6|mi|km}} north of [[Kirkby Stephen]], and had a population of 213 at the 2001 Census.<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790349 Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Eden''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009005239/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790349 |date=9 October 2014 }} Retrieved 26 October 2010</ref> At the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] Winton was grouped with [[Kaber, Cumbria|Kaber]] giving a total population of 327.<ref name=census2011>{{NOMIS2011|id=E04002582|title=Winton Parish|access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref> The word Winton is Old English or Anglo-Saxon in origin, ''Wyntuna'' meaning a pasture. Farmstead was first identified in 1094, shortly after the Norman Conquest, during a period known as the 'Harrying of the North'. <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tXucAQAAQBAJ&dq=Winton%2C+Cumbria&pg=PA503 A Dictionary of British Place-Names]</ref> On 12 April 1659, the village of Winton was at the centre of the Westmorland witch trials, during which several women were hanged at Appleby General Sessions, found guilty of bewitching Margaret Bousefield.<ref> [https://books.google.com/books?id=_m87AwAAQBAJ&dq=Winton%2C+Cumbria&pg=PT30 Paranormal Cumbria (2012)]</ref>

During the Middle Ages Winton was at the centre of the sheep rearing in the Eden Valley, where the flocks moved across the hills into pastures new. More controversial was the part played by the Archbishop of York in dealing with invasions by Scots armies, raiding, looting and burning, sheep-stealing. On 5 October 1357 the local bishop was required to accept the redemption of King David Bruce of Scotland, for the Suffragan Michael of York held sway in the mountains of the West March.<ref>Register Edendon Winton</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=otg3AQAAMAAJ&dq=Winton%2C+Cumbria&pg=PA63 Church of Cumbria and Strathclyde (1873)]</ref>

Both Kirkby Stephen and the village of Winton had a grammar school each, where its major benefactor was a Cambridge educated teacher. Richard Burn helped found the free school that took all children from the neighbouring parishes.

==Notable people== * [[John Langhorne (poet)]] * [[Richard Burn]], school benefactor

==See also== {{portal|Cumbria}}

*[[Listed buildings in Winton, Cumbria]] *[[List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{commons category|Winton, Cumbria}} *[http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/winton Cumbria County History Trust: Winton] (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) *[http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/location.php?url=winton Winton in The Cumbria Directory]

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