Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AUBURN, or Awburn

AUBURN, or Awburn, a township-chapelry in Fraisthorpe parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 2 miles SE of Carnaby r. station, and 3½ miles S by W of Bridlington. Post Town, Bridlington under Hull. Pop., 16. Houses, 2. Much of the land has been washed away by the sea. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Fraisthorpe, in the diocese of York.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fraisthorpe CP/Ch       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: AUBURN     |     AUBURN OR AWBURN     |     AWBURN
Place: Auburn

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