Place:Fraisthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Fraisthorpe was originally a chapelry in the parish of Carnaby and the Wapentake of Dickering.

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

"FRAISTHORPE, a township and a parish in Bridlington district, [East Riding of] Yorkshire. The township lies on the coast, 2¼ miles SSE of Carnaby {railway] station, and 4¼ S by W of Bridlington. Population: 85. Houses: 11. The parish includes also the township of Auburn; and its post town is Bridlington Quay, under Hull. Acres: 2,153; of which 113 are water. Real property: £2,317. Population: 101. Houses: 13. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Carnaby, in the diocese of York."

Within Fraisthorpe is the Grade II listed Anglican chapel dedicated to St Edmund. Originally 13th century, it was remodelled in 1893 by Smith and Brodrick. The chancel and nave are unified, and constructed of rubble and cobble. Remaining from the 1893 rebuild are the 4-foot (1.2 m) high remains of a 13th-century pier in the south wall, which Pevsner believed might be evidence of a former south aisle.

In 1896 Fraisthorpe, which at that time was a parish in the Bridlington Rural District, merged with Auburn and Wilsthorpe, two much smaller parishes closer to the sea which were threated with erosion and worse. It then became the major settlement in the civil parish of Fraisthorpe with Auburn and Wilsthorpe.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Fraisthorpe. GENUKI considers both Auburn and Fraisthorpe chapelries of Carnaby, a parish to the south.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Fraisthorpe 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.