Place:Speeton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Speeton is now a village in the civil parish of Reighton, located in North Yorkshire, England since 1974. It lies near the edge of the coastal cliffs midway between Filey and Bridlington. This is North Yorkshire's eastern most settlement.

Speeton railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough served the village until it closed on 5 January 1970.

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Speeton was originally a chapelry in the parish of Bridlington in the Dickering Wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire, but was made a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 until 1935 it was part of the Bridlington Rural District. In 1935 it was absorbed into the parish of Reighton.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Bridlington with some information on Speeton.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Speeton.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Speeton 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.