Place:Leconfield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Leconfield is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of Beverley town centre and lies on the A614 road.

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Leconfield and Arram and the hamlet of Scorborough. According to the 2001 UK census, Leconfield parish had a population of 1,990.

Leconfield is home to RAF Leconfield, now used as an airfield for Sea King helicopters of the 202 Squadron and the 'Army School of Mechanical Transport' (now Defence School of Transport).

Leconfield Castle was the home of the Percy family, Dukes of Northumberland. There are extensive Tudor brick remains on the visible mound and the 'moat' also remains.

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Leconfield was not formed as a civil parish until 1935, but it had been an ecclesiastical parish in the 19th century and before, as was Scorborough. Leconfield and Arram and Scorborough were previously civil parishes. The area was part of the Harthill Wapentake, the Beverley Registration District (1837-1930) and the Beverley Rural District Council from 1894 until its abolition in 1974.

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 provides a short description of Leconfield parish from a gazetteer of 1822 and a longer description of the Percy family from an unnamed source from the 19th century. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Beswick.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Leconfield provides a list of useful resources for the local area, as does the FamilySearch wiki on Scorborough.