Place:Benningholme and Grange, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Benningholme is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Hull city centre and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the village of Skirlaugh. It forms part of the civil parish of Swine. Benningholme is the site of a "deserted medieval village", near Benningholme Grange (farm), and Benningholme Hall. There is evidence of it having been enclosed before 1571. The deserted settlement is defined by now hardly discernible earthworks. In 1899 Benningholme, as part of the township of Benningholme with Grange, was within the parish of Skirlaugh. Benningholme township land was owned by The Crown, which was also the lord of the manor. Chief crops grown in the parish were wheat, oats, turmips, beans and seeds, within an area of 1,470 acres (6 km2). Benningholme's population in 1891 was 88. Post was directed through Hull, being collected from and distributed to Skirlaugh by foot messenger. Skirlaugh contained the nearest money order and telegraph office. (Source: Kelly's Directory of Hull and its neighbourhood, 1899, Kelly's Directories Ltd, p. 605) A half-mile (800 metres) to the east of Benningholme is the Grade II listed Benningholme Hall, an 1820–30 late Georgian house. end of Wikipedia contribution

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

"BENNINGHOLME and GRANGE, a township in Swine parish, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; 7 miles E by S of Beverley. Acres: 1,280. Real property: £2,460. Population: 106. Houses: 15. (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/870130)

"GRANGE, a township, conjoint with Benningholme, in Swine parish, [East Riding of Yorkshire]. See Benningholme. (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/780460)

Benningholme with Grange was originally the southern part of the township of Skirlaugh in the ecclesiastical parish of Swine in the Holderness Wapentake. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it became part of the Skirlaugh Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and absorbed into the larger Holderness Rural District. At the same time Benningholme with Grange was abolished as a civil parish and was absorbed into the parish of Swine.

NOTE: There is some disagreement between sources as to whether Benningholme was a separate civil parish in the period 1866-1900.

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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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Benningholme in Victoria County History - Yorkshire A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 7, Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions