| Country: | England |
| Static Image: | Heapham, Hewitt's Mill.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 240px |
| Static Image Caption: | Heapham windmill |
| Coordinates: | 53.3844°N -0.6851°W |
| Official Name: | Heapham |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Gainsborough |
| Post Town: | Gainsborough |
| Postcode District: | DN21 |
| Postcode Area: | DN |
| Dial Code: | 01427 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SK875883 |
| London Distance Mi: | 135 |
| London Direction: | S |
Heapham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and 5miles south-east from Gainsborough.
According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Heapham derives from the Old English for "homestead or enclosure where rose-hips or brambles grow", being hēope or hēopa with hām or hamm.[1]
Heapham is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a scattered village and parish with a population of 141, and of 1250acres of land in the Soke of Kirton. All Saints Church had been restored in 1869–70 at a cost of £400. The incumbency was a rectory valued at £361 and included a residence, under the patronage of Lieutenant-colonel Weston Cracroft Amcotts M.P. The Heapham entry included the small Wesleyan chapel, built 1842. Professions and trades listed in 1872 included the parish rector, a corn miller, a farm bailiff, and thirteen farmers, one of whom was a parish overseer, and another a carter and carrier; the carrier [transporting goods and occasionally people] operated between the village and Gainsborough.[2]
Heapham Anglican Grade II listed parish church is dedicated to All Saints. The church tower is of Saxon origin; the main body, Norman. The church was restored in 1868.[3] [4] The churchyard contains the war grave of a Sherwood Foresters soldier of the First World War.[5]
Two chapels were built by Wesleyan Methodists, one in 1842 the other, Grade II listed, in 1897.[6] Other listed buildings[7] include Heapham Windmill, described as "The most complete windmill in West Lindsey".[8] [9]