Place:Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Bishop Burton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The village lies on the A1079 road approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of the market town of Beverley. According to the 2011 UK census, Bishop Burton parish had a population of 696, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 628. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building. Bishop Burton was an ecclesiastical parish in the wapentake of Harthill. In a field to the east of the village is one of the medieval stone boundary markers for the sanctuary of Saint John of Beverley that is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. From 1894 until the municipal reorganization of 1974, Bishop Burton was located in Beverley Rural District.

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").

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Bishop Burton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Bishop Burton.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Bishop Burton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.