Place:Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Burton Agnes is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A614 road midway between Driffield and Bridlington.

Local landmarks include an Elizabethan manor house, Burton Agnes Hall, and a Norman manor house, Burton Agnes Manor House. Both buildings are Grade I listed buildings as is the church.

The present civil parish is formed from the original civil parish of Burton Agnes and the former parishes of Gransmoor and Thornholme which were both abolished in 1935. According to the 2011 UK Census, Burton Agnes parish had a population of 497, an increase of one over the 2001 UK Census figure.

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Burton Agnes was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Dickering Wapentake. Until 1866 the parish also included the township of Haisthorpe.

From 1894 until 1974 Burton Agnes 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, Burton Agnes became part of the East Yorkshire District of the new but short-lived administrative county of Humberside.

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 Burton Agnes.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Burton Agnes provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Burton Agnes.
• 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.