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| Name | Brandesburton |
| Alt names | Bortun | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 305 | | Brantisburtone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 305 | | Brantisburtune | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 305 | | Branzbortune | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 305 | | Burtun | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 305 | | Brandsburton | source: common modern-day spelling | | Burshill | source: hamlet in parish |
| Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 53.901°N 0.305°W |
| Located in | East Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | Yorkshire, England | | Humberside, England (1974 - 1996) | | East Riding of Yorkshire, England (1996 - ) |
| See also | Holderness Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which the parish was located | | Skirlaugh Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1935 | | Holderness Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1935-1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
Burshill
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Brandesburton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Hornsea and 9 miles (14 km) northeast of the market town of Beverley.
The civil parish was based on the ancient parish of Brandesburton which included the hamlet of Burshill. In 1935 the smaller parishes of Moortown and Hempholme were added. According to the 2011 UK census, Brandesburton parish had a population of 1,522, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,348.
St Mary's Church, which is surrounded by its churchyard in the northeast corner of Brandesburton village, is a large, medieval building, with tower, nave, aisles and chancel. It was largely built out of cobbles, but has an early brick clerestory and later south porch. Exhibiting some fragments of Norman work (including a priest's door), it principally dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and was restored in 1892. Inside are two noteworthy brasses: on the south side of the chancel the fragments of a (rare) bracket-brass, and on the north side more substantial, full-size brasses to John St Quintin, a former Lord of the Manor, and his wife. The church has been designated a Grade I listed building.
On the village green is a Grade II listed market cross.
The village is situated off the A165 which used to pass through the village until the opening of a bypass in 1994.
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Brandesburton was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it joined the Skirlaugh Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and Brandesburton was absorbed into the larger Holderness Rural District. The parish remained in Holderness Rural District until 1974. In that year all rural districts were abolished along with the administrative county of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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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").
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Holderness
This is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington.
From 1974 to 1996 Holderness lay within the Borough of Holderness in the short-lived county of Humberside. Holderness was the name of an ancient administrative area called a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the 1888 Local Government Act and the 1894 Local Government Act. The city of Kingston upon Hull lies in the southwest corner of Holderness and the town of Bridlington borders the northeast, but both are usually considered to be outside Holderness. The main towns include Beverley, Withernsea, Hornsea and Hedon. The Holderness Coast stretches from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head.
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Categories: East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Brandesburton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Holderness Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Skirlaugh Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Holderness Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Humberside, England |
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