Winestead is a village in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately south-east of the town of Hedon and north-west of the village of

Patrington Patrington is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness, south-east of Hedon, south-east of Kingston upon Hull and south-west of Withernsea on the A1033. Along with Winestead, it wa ...

. It is situated to the north of the A1033 road. It forms part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

. It is also the ancient seat of the Hildyard/Hilliard/Hildegardis family, whose ancestry is believed to be of Saxon origin. The Hildyard family of Winestead became extinct on the death of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard, Bart., who died without heirs in 1814. Hildyard bequeathed his estates to his niece, Ann Catherine Whyte, who married in the following year Thomas Blackborne Thoroton, Esq., of Flintham Hall,

Flintham Flintham is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district in Nottinghamshire, 7 miles (11 km) from Newark-on-Trent and opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It had a population of 597 at the 2011 Census and estimated at 586 in 2019. The vil ...

, Nottingham. Col. Thoroton of the Coldstream Guards subsequently assumed the name and coat-of-arms of Hildyard. His heirs, who still have the surname Hildyard, reside at Flintham Hall today. The Hildyard family lived at Winestead for 10 generations, and even after the death of the last Baronet, the heirs continued to own

Winestead Hall Winestead Hall was a large country house at Winestead in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. History Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd Baronet commissioned the house, which was then known as the Red Hall, to a design thought to have been by Lord Burlin ...

. In 1823 inhabitants in the village numbered 129. Occupations included six farmers. The Old Post Office, Winestead

The church of St Germain was designated a Grade I

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

in 1966 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. The White Hall was designated a Grade II*

in 1966 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. Winestead was served from 1854 to 1964 by

Winestead railway station Winestead railway station is a disused railway station on the North Eastern Railway's Hull and Holderness Railway to the south of Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was opened by the Hull and Holderness Railway The Hull and ...

on the

Hull and Holderness Railway The Hull and Holderness Railway was a branch line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that connected the city of Kingston upon Hull with the seaside resort of Withernsea via the town of Hedon and the villages of Keyingham and Patrington. H ...

. Andrew Marvell the metaphysical poet was born in the village.

Notable people

Henry Maister Henry Maister (1699–1744), of Hull and Winestead, Yorkshire, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741. Maister was baptized on 1 February 1699, the eldest son of William Maister, a merchant o ...

(1813–1898), cricketer

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* {{authority control Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Holderness