Place:Burstwick with Skeckling, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Burstwick is a village and civil parish in the Holderness region of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has formed a civil parish with the smaller settlement of Skeckling since the middle of the nineteenth century. It is situated about 8 miles (13 km) east of Hull city centre. It lies on the B1362 road. Burstwick is a few miles from the local market town of Hedon and the villages of Keyingham and Thorngumbald. According to the 2011 UK census, Burstwick parish had a population of 1,924, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,813. Burstwick was served from 1854 to 1964 by Burstwick railway station on the Hull and Holderness Railway. end of Wikipedia contribution The following description from 1870 explains why the parish is named Burstwick with Skeckling, and also the relationship of the township of Ryhill and Camerton to it. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Burstwick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "BURSTWICK, a township and a parish in Patrington [registration] district, [East Riding of Yorkshire]. The township is joined with Skeckling; includes part of Ridgmont; lies on the Hull and Holderness railway, near the Humber, 7¾ miles ESE of Hull; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull. Real property: £5,847. Population: 485. Houses: 96. "The parish contains also the township of Ryhill and the hamlet of Camerton. Acres [of the entire parish]: 5,720. Real property: £8,872. Population: 728. Houses: 149. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value: £280. Patron: Sir T. A.Constable. The church is later English, and was restored in 1853."

Burstwick with Skeckling was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it joined the Patrington Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and Burstwick with Skeckling was absorbed into the Holderness Rural District. 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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