Withern is a village in the

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of Withern with Stain, in the

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district of

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. It is situated on the

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, and south-east from

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. Stain was once an independent parish but was combined with Withern when the old church of St John the Baptist was destroyed some centuries ago. According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', the Withern name is derived from the

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''Widu'' or ''wudu'', with ''oern'', meaning "house in the Wood". Another source gives the name as deriving from

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"wood" + OE "house", meaning "the house in the wood", giving 'Witheren' in the 14th century. In the 1086

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, the village name is given as ''Widerne''. The parish was in the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey. After the

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reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union. The common lands, some , were enclosed in 1839. The now redundant church of St Margaret's is the burial place of Auguste Pahud and Annie Pahud, whose love story is the ''raison d'être'' for the local

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park. St Margaret's was rebuilt in 1812. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1875, though the congregation dates from about 1811. A Public Elementary School was built in the hamlet of Stain in 1850 and enlarged in 1858 to hold 100 children. The Wesleyans built a school in 1875. The

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was the seat of the Fitzwilliam family. It was occupied as a farmhouse in 1900, but the moat still exists. The Grant family lived in the house at one time, their daughter being Annie Pahud.

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in the name of the Civil Parish exists. This ward stretches south east to Saleby with a total population taken at the Census of 2011 of 1,826.

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District

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