Place:Barmston, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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: the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Barmston is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the Holderness coast, overlooking the North Sea and to the east of the A165 road. The village of Barmston is approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Bridlington town centre. Most of the parish lies north of the village. Together with the village of Fraisthorpe in the same parish since 1935, it now forms the civil parish of "Barmston and Fraisthorpe". A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Barmston from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "BARMSTON, a parish in Bridlington [registration] district, [East Riding of] Yorkshire; on the coast, 4 miles SE of Burton-Agnes [railway] station, and 6 S by W of Bridlington. Post Town, Lissettunder Hull. Acres: 2,336; of which 156 are water. Real property: £3,857. Population: 206. Houses: 36. The manor belongs to Sir H. Boynton, Bart.; and the ancient mansion on it is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value: £1,065. Patron: Sir H. Boynton, Bart. The church is perpendicular English, has a Norman porch-door, had once a chantry, and contains a circular font with cable moulding and a curious monument to Sir Martin de la Mare. Charities, £22." From 1894 until 1974 Barmston was part of the Bridlington Rural District. In 1974 the rural district was abolished and with the rest of the East Riding south of Bridlington, Bramston became part of the North Wolds District of the new but short-lived administrative county of Humberside. The North Wolds District was renamed the East Yorkshire District of Humberside in 1981.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Barmston.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Barmston provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.

• For a discussion of where to find Archive Offices in Yorkshire, see GENUKI.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.