Withcall is a small farming village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies within the Lincolnshire Wolds, and south-west from Louth . The village was served by Withcall railway station, a small station halt on the long-since defunct Louth to Bardney line; a section of the platform edge still remains, and there is a well-preserved tunnel close by. Work on the building of the tunnel started in January 1852; the tunnel is long.
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The Great Northern Railway planned and built a branch line from to in stages, the final stage between and Louth opening to goods on 28 June 1876 and passengers on 1 December 1876. Withcall railway station was the second station west of Louth on this line. Passenger services ended on 5 November 1951, goods traffic on 17 December 1956.
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During World War II many bomber airfields were established in Lincolnshire; in January 1943 a Maintenance Unit, No 233, was formed in the area to store and supply bombs and other equipment. It was given the name of Market Stainton, but in fact comprised some sixty miles of roadside grass verges. The stations used to supply this were Donington on Bain, Withcall and Hallington. It was closed in 1948.
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259 By 1177, he was a clerk for Robert Foliot, who was Bishop of Hereford, and he stayed at Hereford until around 1186. By 1190, he held the office of parson of Withcall, Lincolnshire. He entered the king's service sometime before 1194, for he was Dean of Salisbury by 5 May 1194.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 4: Salisbury: Deans He held the offices of Archdeacon of Richmond, treasurer of the East Riding and archdeacon of the East Riding after this.
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The Great Northern Railway agreed to work the line, but the GNR directors were not willing to commit their own resources to the project, and they refused direct financial aid. So sceptical were they that they insisted on payment in cash or securities for the cost of installation of the junctions. The line was engineered by T Myers; it was single track, laid with 72 lb rails. There were two tunnels, South Willingham (557 yd) between South Willingham and Donington and Withcall (971 yd) between Donington and Hallington.
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Between the chancel and the Peter Chapel is the recumbent stone effigy and chest tomb of Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe (d.1266) of Withcall in Lincolnshire, Greasley in Nottinghamshire and Ilkeston in Derbyshire, who married Eustachia FitzHugh, daughter and heiress of Ralph FitzHugh of Greasley. His son was William de Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe (1262-1308) of Greasley and of Ravensthorpe Castle in the parish of Boltby, North Yorkshire. The monument would once have stood in a central position and was mentioned as being in the chancel in 1662 and again in 1716.
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The de Cantilupes were a long-established Lincolnshire family based at Scotton in the northeast of the county. They were also major landholders in the Midlands, with estates in Greasley, Ilkeston, and Withcall. The family had traditionally played an important role in both local society and central government with a history of loyal and diligent service to the crown. Not only were they lords of the realm—"one of the richest and most influential families in fourteenth-century England", suggests the scholar Frederick Pedersen—but the family possessed Saint Thomas de Cantilupe in its ancestry, and considered themselves to be under his special protection.
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Recumbent effigy and chest tomb of Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe (d.1266), father of William de Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe; St Mary's Church, Ilkeston, Derbyshire He was born in 1262 at Lenton PrioryHis place of birth is recorded as a result of a proof of age inquiry made on the attainment of his majority (21) as King Edward I, who held his wardship, disputed that he was entitled to exit wardship in Nottinghamshire (to which his maternal ancestors the de Greasley family had been benefactors), the son and heir of Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe (d.1266) of Withcall (an ancient Cantilupe possessionHeld by William I de Cantilupe (d.1239) and then by his son William II, father of Nicholas of Greasley (see: Henrietta Kaye, Serving the man that ruled: aspects of the domestic arrangements of the household of King John, 1199-1216, p.
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