Place:Burnby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Burnby is a village and former civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1935 it was abolished to enlarge the neighbouring parish of Hayton. Both parishes were located in Pocklington Rural District.

Burnby is situated approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) south-east of the town of Pocklington and 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of the market town of Market Weighton. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of the A1079 road.

The church, dedicated to St Giles, was designated in 1967 by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. Burnby was served by Nunburnholme railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1847 and 1951.

Historically, Burnby was an ecclesiastical parish in the wapentake of Harthill.

Research Tips

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