Place:Dringhoe Upton and Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Dringhoe Upton and Brough from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DRINGHOE, UPTON, AND BROUGH, a township in Skipsea parish, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; 9 miles E by S of Driffield. Acres: 1,700. Real property: £2,173. Population: 157. Houses: 29. It is a meet for the Holderness hounds."

GENUKI, quoting from another 19th century gazetteer, states

"DRINGHOE, (or Drinkow) in the parish of Skipsea, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1 mile W. of Skipsea, 9 miles E. of Driffield. Population, including Brough and Upton, 164."

Wikpedia provides a 21st century comment: "situated approximately 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Hornsea on the B1249 road to the west of Skipsea Brough."

In summary, Dringhoe Upton and Brough was a township of Skipsea ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake of East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It became a civil parish in 1866 and part of the Bridlington Rural District in 1894. In 1935 the civil parish was abolished and the area was absorbed back into Skipsea civil parish.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Skipsea included information on Dringhoe Upton and Brough.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Skipsea lists Dringhoe Upton and Brough among its townships.
• 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.