East Stockwith is an ecclesiastical parish and a village about 150 miles north of London, 4 miles northwest of Gainsborough and 2 miles east of Misterton (in Nottingham county), on the eastern bank of the River Trent. Across the river is the hamlet of West Stockwith and the basin of the Chesterfield Canal (where the River Idle joins the River Trent).
The Parish covers about 780 acres in 1913. Until 1846, the parish was part of Gainsborough parish. The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1910, the Primitive Methodists in 1870. A Wesleyan chapel was built in Walkerwith township in 1834. A school board was formed on 6 February 1896 for East Stockwith and Walkerwith. A public elementary school was built in 1896 to hold 150 children. Average attendance in 1913 was 85.
White's 1882 Directory lists the following surnames in the parish: BARRATT, BELTON, BETTS, BURKS, BYWATER, DENBY, FISH, FORRINGTON, FOX, GURNHILL, HACKNEY, HARRISON, HELYER, HOODLESS, LAVIS, LOCKWOOD, MITCHELL, PEARSON, RANBY, REVILL, ROSE, SHAW, SLINGSBY, SNOWDEN, SWIFT, WAGSTAFF, WATERHOUSE, WILLOWS, WINN, WOODLIFFE and WRIGHT. The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895: Stockwith, East, a township and a chapelry in Gainsborough parish, Lincolnshire. The township lies on the river Trent, 3¾ miles NNW of Gainsborough railway station. Post town, Gainsborough. Acreage, 488; population, 419. The chapelry was constituted in. 1846. Population, 497.
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