[citation needed] Richard Troughton was the Bailiff of South Witham; he was imprisoned by charges brought against him by Thomas Wymberley, partly due to Troughton's part in the Duke of Northumberland's attempt to put Lady Jane Grey, Northumberland's daughter-in-law, on the throne.

In 1966, the Royal Air Force built a large housing estate on the opposite side of the River Witham.

[citation needed] On Thursday 2 August 1973 at around 11 pm, Canberra B2 WJ674 of 231 OCU crashed in the field east of The Fox public house, near Woodbine Farm in North Witham parish.

John Stafford heard two distinct bangs (the ejection seats being fired) and an intense flash of light, and called emergency services.

[5] Flt Lt John Dennis was killed, aged 26, the pilot, and married from Crantock near Newquay, with a 10-month old baby; he was on attachment on the No.50 course at Cottesmore from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall.

[6][7][8] Vincent Davies, who owned The Fox also called the police, and ran to the scene, and spoke to the pilot before he died, a few minutes later.

Pathologist Trevor Spencer said the pilot died from multiple fractures, mainly to the ribs, legs, and pelvis.

The boundary goes due east to meet North Witham parish at the first undulation in the road northwards.

Before the road was improved, the South Witham crossroads on the A1 lay at the point where the sliproads join today.

But in the south of county, ironstone is on the Marlstone Rock bed, on the upper portion of Middle Lias.

Other companies based in the village include Compressed Air Plant, Auriga, Petlife International and Clever Cooks.

[18][19] His sixth child acted as a vicar of the village, and fought as a captain, aged 34, with the First Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment; his body was never found after 1 November 1914, and his name is inscribed on the Menin Gate in Belgium.

Frances, the granddaughter of John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, the Secretary of State for Scotland lived in village; she married Charles Manners-Tollemache, the nephew of the Earl of Dysart, in 1797.

[citation needed] The owner later claimed to be Britain's safest driver,[20] having taken to the wheel in 1925 (at the age of 15), and buying his first car, a Willys Overland Crossley Whippet in 1935 for £2.50.

[citation needed] Until their disbandment in 1312, the Knights Templar were major landowners on the higher lands of Lincolnshire, where they had a number of preceptories on property which provided income, while Temple Bruer was an estate on the Lincoln Heath, believed to have been used also for military training.

[23] The preceptories from which the Lincolnshire properties were managed were:[24] The village focuses on two centres: around the church and around the former MOD housing estate.