Place:Argam, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"ARGAM, or Ergham, a parish in Bridlington [registration] district, [East Riding of] Yorkshire; on the Wolds, 2½ miles WSW of Speeton [railway] station, and 5 NW of Bridlington. Post Town: Grindale under Hull. Acres: 510. Real property: £798. Population: 27. Houses: 4. The living is a sinecure rectory. Value: £21. Patron: Grimston, Esq."

Some references describe the village of Argam as a deserted settlement. The parish existed for a lot longer. A Vision of Britain through Time states it was a chapelry under Hunmanby until 1269 when it became an ancient parish in the Dickering Wapentake in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In 1866 the status of civil parish was introduced and this was taken on by most ancient parishes and also by their subsidiary townships if they were of any size at all. In 1866 Argam, which had no townships, became a civil parish. In 1894 it became part of the Bridlington Rural District of the East Riding.

In 1935 the parish was abolished and the area transferred to the parish of Grindale.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Argam.
• 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.