Place:Aldbrough (near Hull), East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Aldbrough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Hull at the junction of the B1242 and B1238 roads. It lies near to the North Sea coast within the area of Holderness. Since 1935 the civil parish of Aldbrough is formed by the previous civil parishes of Aldbrough and East Newton. It includes the hamlets of Etherdwick and Tansterne. According to the 2011 UK Census, Aldbrough parish had a population of 1,269, a fall from the 2001 UK Census figure of 1,336. The parish covers an area of 2,213.298 hectares (5,469.18 acres). A hamlet at Ringbrough (or Ringborough) dated back to at least the 11th century. By the 1850s it had been reduced to a single farm. It was substantially expanded as a military installation during the Second World War, with the installation of gun emplacements, lookouts, and underground bunkers. As of 2011 it is being destroyed by coastal erosion. In 1823 Aldbrough was a parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. Population, which included the townships of East and West Newton, numbered 998. Occupations included fourteen farmers, two blacksmiths, one of whom was a farrier, a joiner who was also an auctioneer, four wheelwrights, four grocers, five shoemakers, four tailors, two butchers, a hairdresser, a common brewer, and two landlords of public houses (pubs). Also within the village were the parish vicar and the curate, three yeomen, two schoolmasters, two surgeons, a bailiff, an excise officer, a gentleman and a gentlewoman. Five carriers operated between Aldbrough and Hull twice weekly. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Dating from the second half of the 14th century, it is a Grade II* listed building. The settlement of Fosham was 1 mile (1.6 km) to the southeast, its population included in Aldbrough. Fosham contained two farmers, and a once a week carrier to Hull. A Vision of Britain through Time reports that Aldbrough contained the townships of East Newton, Great and Little Cowdens, and West Newton with Burton Constable. It also contained the manors of Aldbrough, Aldbrough Rectory, Bewick, Carlton, Etherdwick, Fosham, Newton, Ringbrough, Tansterne and Thorpe.

Aldbrough was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it joined the Skirlaugh Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and Aldbrough was absorbed into the Holderness Rural District, merging with East Newton under the name Aldbrough at the same time. The parish remained in Holderness Rural District until 1974. In that year all rural districts were abolished along with the administrative county of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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").

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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.
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