Place:Eastoft, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Eastoft is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated within the Isle of Axholme, 3 miles (5 km) northeast from Crowle, and on the A161 road.

The 2001 UK census recorded a parish population of 378, increasing to 431 at the 2011 UK census.

The village is a linear settlement along the A161 between Crowle and Goole, and includes a junction with the B1392 road leading to the village of Luddington. It comprises more than 2,600 acres (11 km2), and for the most part is only a little above sea-level.

Eastoft became a separate parish on 25 September 1855, when it was created from parts of Adlingfleet and Crowle. In 1900 Kelly's Directory noted that although it was a single ecclesiastical parish, it was still two civil parishes, known as Eastoft, Yorkshire and Eastoft, Lincolnshire. The area of the parish was listed as 1,327 acres (537 ha) in Yorkshire and 1,312 acres (531 ha) in Lincolnshire. At the time, the church, the school and the vicarage were all located in Yorkshire, and there were two halls. William Coulman was a Justice of the Peace and lived in Eastoft Hall, Yorkshire, while William Halkon lived at Eastoft Hall, Lincolnshire. The plantation next to Halkon's residence had once housed a chapel of ease and a burial ground, but all traces of them had gone by 1900.

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No evidence has been found so far as to when Eastoft was officially considered to be wholly a Lincolnshire parish. It appears to have been in the Goole Rural District of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974 when, like the area surrounding, it became part of Humberside until 1996. North Lincolnshire District and the unitary authority of the East Riding of Yorkshire were created at that time.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Eastoft. GENUKI includes Eastoft under Adlingfleet because Adlingfleet was its ancient parish. It gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki also includes Eastoft under Adlingfleet.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Eastoft.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for the Goole Rural District, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey. These maps expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. This map is not equivalent to maps for other parts of the country at this time period and does not show parish boundaries. However, Goole Rural District is clearly shown. It is at the extreme right of the map and much wider than it is long.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935. This map does show the civil parish boundaries.

Remember that the entire rural district became part of Humberside 1974-1996, but on the abolition of Humberside, some parishes joined Lincolnshire while others joined the East Riding of Yorkshire. This fact is covered on a parish by parish basis.