Place:Owthorne, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameOwthorne
Alt namesOwthornesource: from redirect
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates53.734°N 0.034°E
Located inEast Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1935)
Also located inYorkshire, England     ( - 1935)
See alsoHolderness Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandwapentake in which the parish was located
Patrington Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1935
Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1935
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Owthorne was a village in the former East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Holderness coast, to the north of Withernsea, and it is one of many that have been lost to coastal erosion.

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A nineteenth century description

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

"OWTHORNE, a village, a township, and a parish, in Patrington[registration] district, in the [East Riding] of Yorkshire. The village stands on the coast, ¾ of a mile N of Withernsea [railway] station, and 4½ N E of Patrington; has, at various periods, sustained considerable damage from encroachments of the sea; and is now a sea-bathing resort. The township comprises 1,100 acres of land, and 178 of water. Real property: £2,711. Population in 1851: 163; in 1861: 424. Houses, 84. The increase of population was caused mainly by extension of railway communication.
"The parish contains also the townships of Waxholme, South Frodingham, and Rimswell; and its post town is Withernsea, under Hull. Acres: 4, 430; of which 391 are water. Real property: £7,070. Population in 1851: 462; in 1861: 704. Houses: 141. The property is much subdivided. An ancient British canoe, horns of the red deer, and portions of trees were not long ago found near the site of the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value: £282. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The old church was destroyed by the sea, during a storm in 1816. The new church stands at Rimswell, about 2 miles from the sea; and is an edifice of yellow brick, with a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school."
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The map illustrates only the parishes within Holderness Wapentake, and therefore shows Owthorne and Hollym, but not Withernsea which grew into the principal settlement of the area, or Rimwell which replaced Owthorne. Withernsea was a "township-chapelry" in Hollym parish until 1866 when it became a civil parish.

To summarize, Owthorne was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake. Along with Waxholme, South Frodingham, and Rimswell, it was made a civil parish in 1866 and joined the Patrington Rural District in 1894. In 1891 and 1911 it lost considerable acres to Withernsea. In 1935 what was left of Owthorne was absorbed into the parish of Rimswell. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

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Holderness

This is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington.

From 1974 to 1996 Holderness lay within the Borough of Holderness in the short-lived county of Humberside. Holderness was the name of an ancient administrative area called a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the 1888 Local Government Act and the 1894 Local Government Act. The city of Kingston upon Hull lies in the southwest corner of Holderness and the town of Bridlington borders the northeast, but both are usually considered to be outside Holderness. The main towns include Beverley, Withernsea, Hornsea and Hedon. The Holderness Coast stretches from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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