Stainton
Stainton - a frequent name in the North, usually means farmstead on stony ground, Old English st n replaced by Old Scandinavian: steinn plus t n
Source A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
Stainton St. Winifred a discharged Vicarage. Area, 3,060 acres. Strafforth and Tickhill wapentake, Population, 254;
This Church, together with Tickhill, of which it was a member, was given to the Priory of Nostel, to which it was
appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, in 1440.
Patron and impropriator, the Earl of Scarborough.
Not mentioned in Pope Nicholas's Survey. Valued in the King's books at £51. 14s. 2d.; in 1818, at 80s.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, 17s. per annum. Viscount Castleton is impropriator and patron. It is stated: "Now in regard we find but twenty families in Staynton, and it is but a mile from Brewell (Braithwell), therefore we think fit it be annexed to Brewell, and Helleby to Bramley, in the parish of Braithwell."
Augmented in 1722 with 200s., to meet benefactions of 100s. from Messrs. N. Pearson, George Pashley, Robert Pashley, Matthew Pursloe, and Thomas Tofield, and a legacy of 100s. from the Rev. Robert Turie.
The Rev. James Bosville's gift, in 1818: Interest to be paid to the clerk, and the residue to be given by the Vicar or Curate annually, in the first week in November, among the poor of Stainton not receiving parochial relief, in sums of 5s. each, or such larger sums as might be thought expedient.
Post town, Tickhill. Source: Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum
Described in 1822 as a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2.5 miles from Tickhill, 6.5 from Bawtry, 9 from Rotherham, 45 from York. Population, including Hellaby, 218, which being united form a township. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated, to St. Winifred, in the Deanery of Doncaster, value, £5 15s. 0d. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough.
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