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The name Withcall is derived from its Roman name Vita cala, the area being occupied by Romans from AD82-410. By 1066, following the Viking invasion, begun in 793, the village was known as Vio-Kior.
The Vikings were ejected from the country following their defeat at the [[Battle of Stamford Bridge]] in 1066.
During the seventeenth century, a lot of the surrounding land was turned over to sheep grazing. Joan Thirsk, in her ''England Peasant Farming'', of 1957, reports the Lord of Withcall
Withcall House dates from around 1830 though a number of extensions have been added subsequently while the Old Rectory in the village was designed by S. S. Teulon and dates from 1849.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Withcall’s History – From Roman Times to Today – Withcall Village |url=http://withcallvillage.co.uk/withcalls-history-from-roman-times-to-today/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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In 1880, the Withcall estate was owned by Nathaniel Clayton (1811-1890) who, with his brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth (1819-1883), set up the Clayton and Shuttleworth engineering company in Lincoln in 1842. They began constructing portable steam engines in 1845 and presented their work at the Great Exhibition of 1851. They soon became one of the leading makers of agricultural machines in the country.[5]
Clayton treated the Withcall estate as
== Withcall Station ==
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 remains, and there is a well-preserved tunnel close by.<ref name="Tunnel">{{cite web|title=Forgotten Relics: Withcall Tunnel |url=http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/tunnels/gallery/withcall.html| website=www.forgottenrelics.co.uk|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> Work on the building of the tunnel started in January 1852; the tunnel is {{convert|971|yards|metres|0}} long. The first passenger train passed through the tunnel in 1876 and the last train in 1956.<ref name="Tunnel" />
The Withcall station was the second one west of Louth on the line. Building of the 971-yard tunnel (now abandoned to bats) to cut through the hills at Withcall began in January 1872 (the tunnel at nearby [[South Willingham]] is shorter). Adrian S. Pye writes:
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