Skipsea, and 74 S.S. by W. of Bridlington. The Wesleyan Chapel was erected in 1848, on a piece of land given by Mr. Francis Sharp.

The Manor House stands near the centre of the village, and is now oссиpied by Mr. Thomas Smith. Ulram Hall is the residence of Mr. J. T. Sharp, farmer. Ulram Cottage is the property and residence of Mr. F. Sharp; and Skipsea Cottage, near the sea, is the seat of E. Robinson, Esq. These are the principal houses in the township.

The Coast Guard have a station here, near the sea, for five officers. The poor have a fourth part of the yearly produce of a bequest of £400. by the Rev. John Holmes, in 1772; and the rents of five acres allotted at the enclosure, after paying 20s. towards the repairs of the chapel.

WITHERNWICK. - This parish contains 2,600 acres, of the rateable value of £3,129. Its population is 513 souls. The family of Fauconberg held this manor with Rise, and it afterwards fell into other hands. It has long been in the possession of the Bethell family. The chief landowners at present are R. Bethell, Esq. (Lord of the Manor); Geo. Alder, Esq., Mr. John Leaper, Mrs. Lee, Rt. Bell, M.D., and Mr. E. Walker. In Domesday the place is called Widefornwick, but in some later records it is written Whit-thorn-wick, which suggests the etymology of its present name.

The Benefice is a Rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Holme, in the Cathedral of York; but under the Cathedral Act the Archbishop will be the patron, after the termination of the existing interest of the present Prebendary. It is rated in the King's Books at £6. 7s. 1d., and its present value has not been returned. The tithes were commuted in 1802. The Church (St. Alban) has just been rebuilt, and consists of a nave, south aisle, chancel, south porch, and an open bell turret between the nave and the chancel, containing two bells. It is built of cobble stones and brick, with cut stone dressings. Pointed arches, resting on octagonal pillars, separate the nave from the aisle; the seats are open; and a window of three and another of two lights, in the chancel, are filled with stained glass. The gables are surmounted with three crosses. The cost of the re-erection of the edifice is about £1,100.; towards which the Rector (the Rev. George Holdsworth) contributed £400., and Richard Bethell, Esq., of Rise, £50.; the remainder was raised by subscription.

The Village stands on high ground, about 8 miles N. by E. of Hedon. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1811; and a Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1843. The School was built in 1846, and is supported by subscription. A Wesleyan Sunday School was built in 1845.

The Manor House is a modern building. Withernwick Grange, in the

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occupation of Mr. William Marshall, farmer, is a good substantial, as well as very neat, residence. The Charities for the poor of the parish amount to £4. 10s. per annum.

Statistics of Holderness.-According to the Census Return of 1851, the area and population of Holderness was as follows:

Dickering apentake.

THIS division of the East Riding, which is situated at its north-eastern extremity, extends over an area of 109,980 acres, and contains a population of 21,465 souls; viz., 10,906 males, and 10,559 females. It comprises the market town of Bridlington, and the following parishes:-Argam, Bempton, Bessingby, Boynton, Burton Agnes, Burton Fleming, Carnaby, Filey (part of), Flamborough, Folkton, Foston-upon-the-Wolds, Foxholes, Fraisthorpe, Ganton, Garton-upon-the-Wolds, Harpham, Hunmanby, Kilham, Lowthorpe, Muston, Nafferton, Wansford, Reighton, Ruston Parva, Thwing, Willerby, and Wold Newton. The wapentake is bounded on the east by the German Ocean, on the south by Harthill Wapentake and Holderness, on the west by Buckrose Wapentake, and on the north by the North Riding of the county. Dickering probably derived its name from the remarkable entrenchment near Flamborough, called the Danes Dyke.

ARGAM, or ERGHAM.-This is a small parish, sometimes considered extraparochial, consisting of 510 acres, chiefly the property of Mr. Thomas Bell (the Lord of the Manor), and Yarburgh Yarburgh, Esq. The place is divided into Great and Little Argam, and the land is subdivided into three farms. It is situated about 5 miles N.W. of Bridlington. Its population is 40 persons, and rateable value £456.

The Living is a Rectory, valued in the King's Books at £2. 13s. 4d., and now united to the Perpetual Curacy of Bridlington. The Church (St. John Baptist) is gone, and no institution has taken place since 1605.

Finley Hill is occupied by Mr. George Bell.

BEMPTON. This parish is situated near Flamborough head, and is bounded on the north by the German Ocean. Its area is 2,093 acres, including sea coast, and the number of its inhabitants is 342. Amount of assessed property, £2,343.; rateable value, £2,472. The principal landholders are F. S. Champion, Esq., Bempton (Lord of the Manor), Mr. G. Walmsley, Rudston; Miss Coverley, Bridlington; Mr. H. Pearson, West Ayton; Miss Broadley; and Mr. John Milner, Kilham. Some of the richest grazing and feeding pastures in the East Riding are in this parish, and the farmers are regarded as being amongst the best cultivators of the soil.

The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, returned at £51., and augmented with £800. of Queen Anne's Bounty, from 1766 to 1824. The patronage is vested in Miss Broadley, who is also the impropriator, and the Rev. Jabez Banks is the Incumbent. The tithes were commuted for land, and a money payment, in 1765. The Church (St. Michael) belonged to the Priory of Bridlington, from which it was separated in 1474. It is a small edifice, consisting of a nave, side aisles, chancel, a low tower at the west end, and a porch on the south side. It has been repaired at different periods, and the chancel was rebuilt, at the expense of the impropriator, in 1829. The windows are plain and square-headed, except the east window, which is of four lights. The aisles are divided from the nave by four circular arches, resting on circular pillars. There is a gallery for the singers at the west end. The tower contains two bells.

The Village is situated about 34 miles N.N.E. from Bridlington, and at it is a station on the Scarborough, Bridlington, and Hull Railway.

The Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1825; and the Primitive Methodist Chapel, in 1843. The National School was erected by subscription in 1854. The Manor House, a neat stone building in the village, is occupied by its owner, T. S. Champion, Esq. The Parsonage House, built in 1845-6, is a neat brick building, a little east from the church. Bempton Grange, about a mile north of the village, is in the occupation of Mr. Thos. Roundhill.

In a close a little S.W. of the church, in a part of the parish called Newsholme, lies interred the body of Henry Jarrett, who died Jany. 14th, 1721. He was Lord of the Manor of Bempton-cum-Newsholme.

The poor parishioners participate in Walmsley's gift, as noticed with Flamborough, and have the interest of £10. left by two unknown donors. BESSINGBY. The area of this parish is 1,230 acres; population, in 1851, 92 souls; rateable value, £2,677.; amount of assessed property, £2,045. Harrington Hudson, Esq., upon attaining his majority, in 1856, will be Lord of the Manor, sole proprietor of the soil, and patron of the church.

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The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, valued at £5. 68. 8d., and returned at £59. per ann. The Rev. N. C. Strickland is the Incumbent. The tithes were commuted in 1766. The Church (St. Magnus) is a small structure, without aisles or a tower, and was rebuilt in 1766. In the chancel are several monuments to the Hudson family, one of which is a beautiful marble tablet, with a basso relievo of a female expiring in the arms of her attendants. The east window, of three lights, is filled with stained glass, inscribed to the memory of H. G. F. Hudson, Esq. The font is of considerable antiquity.

The Village is small, and enveloped in trees, and stands about 14 mile S.W. of Bridlington. There is an ancient draw-well in it. Bessingby Hall, the former seat of the Hudsons, is pleasantly situated, on high ground, near the village, and is at present occupied by F. Wilkinson, Esq. The Manor House, a long brick building in the village, is the residence of Mr. Bourdass, farmer. The residence of Mr. John Kingston, farmer, near the church, is an ancient house in the shape of the letter T, having walls of nearly a yard in thickness. It is stated that about 50 years ago some human remains were discovered beneath the floor of this house. Wan Dale Farm, 1 mile N.W. of Bessingby, is now in the occupation of Mr. Francis Blakeston.

BOYNTON. This parish, which is situated on the road from Bridlington to Malton, comprises 2,690 acres, the property of Sir George Strickland, and a population of 113 souls. The rateable value is £3,183. The Strickland family were anciently seated in Westmorland, but the principal branch of it has been settled here for more than two centuries. Sir George Strickland, the present owner of Boynton, is the 7th Baronet, and son of the 6th Baronet, by the daughter and co-heir of Nathaniel Cholmeley, Esq., of Whitby and Howsham. He was born at Welburn, Kirby-Moorside, in 1782; married in 1818, the only child of the Rev. Charles Constable, of Wassand; and succeeded his father in 1834. The first Baronet was summoned to the Upper House, during Cromwell's protectorate, as Lord Strickland. The heir to the title and estates is Chas. Wm. Strickland, Esq., born at Hildenley in 1819.

The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, in the patronage of Sir G. Strickland (the impropriator), and Incumbency of the Rev. Francis Simpson. It is valued in the Liber Regis at £7. 14s. 2d. and returned at £141. per ann. The impropriate and vicarial tithes were commuted for land, and a money payment, at the enclosure in 1777. The Church (St. Andrew) was rebuilt in the early part of the last century, and consists of a nave and chancel, with a handsome tower at the west end, embattled and pinnacled. The interior is neat. A portion of the centre of the edifice is supported by four semi-Gothic columns, and the chancel is separated from the nave by iron railings, The

chancel contains several monuments to the Strickland family. The font, which is in the centre of the church, is circular.

The Village is small and well wooded, and stands about 24 miles W. by N. of Bridlington. The Parsonage House is a neat edifice north of the church.

Boynton Hall, the seat of Sir G. Strickland, is a lofty and handsome mansion of red brick, beautifully situated upon an eminence, in a richly wooded park, on the acclivities of which are some fine plantations, and a large sheet of water ornaments the grounds. The interior of the mansion is very elegantly furnished and decorated, and contains a small collection of marble statues, among which is a Juno, 4 feet 10 inches in height, carrying a fawn under her arm, which is encircled in a wreath of fruit and flowers. This statue was found in 1777, at the Torre tre treste, four miles from Rome, on the Prænestian way, laid on a tesselated pavement, probably the temple to which it belonged. There is also a finely sculptured head of M. Junius Brutus, of the size of life. And among the other curiosities preserved here, is the thigh bone of the famous outlaw "Little John," measuring 38 inches, taken ont of his grave at Hathersage, in Derbyshire, some 70 or 80 years ago. On an elevated ridge south of the hall is a pavilion, the upper room of which is supported by a circular colonnade, and ascended by steps. From this room is a very extensive prospect, both by sea and land, particularly of Bridlington Bay and the eastern acclivities of the Wolds, rising in some places gradually and in others abruptly from the coast.

A number of flint instruments used by the ancient British inhabitants of this district, have been picked up from time to time by Mr. Joseph Barugh, on the farm called Charleston, in his occupation.

The poor parishioners have the interest of £50., left by an unknown donor, and they participate with those of Carnaby in the interest of £60., left by Elizabeth Letitia Strickland in 1803.

BRIDLINGTON.

The market town and port of Bridlington is situated near the German Ocean, and gives name to the bay, of which the promontory called Flamborough Head, forms the northern extremity. The place is supposed to have derived its name from its Saxon possessor, who was probably named Bridla. Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.,* in a note to Mr. Edward Tindall, of