Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUNMANBY

HUNMANBY, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Bridlington district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Hull and Scarborough railway, between the Wolds and the sea, 8 miles NW by N of Bridlington; is clean and gas lighted; and has a station on the railway, a post office under York, a good inn, a brewery, a church, three dissenting chapels, a parochial school, a literary institution, a parochial library, charities about £35, a monthly cattle market, and fairs on 6 May and 29 Oct. The church is partly of the 12th century; was repaired at much cost, in 1845; consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and contains armorial bearings of the ancient lords of Hunmanby manor, a modern monument to the Osbaldestons, and two memorial windows to the Mitfords.-The township comprises 7, 200 acres of land, and 222 of water. Pop. in 1851, 1, 291; in 1861, 1, 387. Houses, 291.—The parish contains also the chapelry of Fordon, and comprises 8, 882 acres. Real property, £10, 614. Pop., 1, 425. Houses, 296. Hunmanby Hall belongs to Admiral Mitford; and is a very old but restored brick edifice in a park, with a Gothic entrance arch. There are extensive brick and tile works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York, and till lately was united to Fordon. Value, £958.* Patron, Admiral Mitford. Dr. Fiddes, author of a life of Wolsey, was a native.—The sub-district contains also six other parishes and part of another. Acres, 30, 257. Pop., 3, 914. Houses, 780.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hunmanby AP/CP       Hunmanby SubD       Bridlington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hunmanby

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