Name | Great Kelk |
Alt names | Chelc | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 307 | | Chelche | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 307 |
Type | Township, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 54.001°N 0.302°W |
Located in | East Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
Also located in | Yorkshire, England | | Humberside, England (1974 - 1996) | | East Riding of Yorkshire, England (1996 - ) |
See also | Foston on the Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | ancient parish in which it was a township | | Dickering Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which the parish was located | | Driffield Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district in which the civil parish was located 1894-1935 | | Little Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | neighbouring parish with which it merged in 1935 | | Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | name of civil parish since 1935 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Great Kelk is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) southwest of Bridlington. Since 1935 it has formed part of the civil parish of Kelk.
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Historically, Great Kelk was in the ecclesiastical parish of Foston on the Wolds in the wapentake of Dickering. From 1894 until 1935, Great Kelk was located in Driffield Rural District. In 1935 it merged with its neighbouring parish of Little Kelk and continued as a part of Driffield Rural District under the name of Kelk.
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 Great Kelk. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Foston on the Wolds provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Great Kelk.
- 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.
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Categories: East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Humberside, England | Driffield Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Dickering Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Great Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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