Place:Gransmoor, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Gransmoor is a now a hamlet within the parish of Burton Agnes in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) southwest of the town of Bridlington and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the village of Burton Agnes.

In 1823 Gransmoor was a township in the parish of Burton Agnes and the Wapentake of Dickering. The population was 85, which included six farmers and a carrier who operated between the hamlet and Bridlington once weekly. By 1840 population was 93, again with six farmers. A chapel was built in 1839 by the owner of all 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of township land.

Gransmoor became a civil parish in 1866 and was a unit of the Bridlington Rural District from 1894 until 1935 when it was re-absorbed into the civil parish of Burton Agnes.

Research Tips

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