Place:Hunmanby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Since 1974 Hunmanby has been a large village and civil parish in the Scarborough District of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Filey.

According to the 2011 UK census, Hunmanby parish had a population of 3,132, a decrease on the 2001 UK census figure of 3,279. It is served by Hunmanby railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line, which runs between Hull and Scarborough.

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From 1894 until 1974 Hunmanby was part of the Bridlington Rural District. Prior to that it was an ecclesiastical parish in Dickering Wapentake. In 1974 the rural district was abolished and the East Riding was split between two new counties: Humberside and North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire also acquired all but the northeast corner of what had been the North Riding of Yorkshire and a large northern swathe of the West Riding. North Yorkshire was divided into a number of district municipalities. Hunmanby was place in Scarborough District.

History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hunmanby.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Hunmanby.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Hunmanby.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Hunmanby provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• 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.

• For a discussion of where to find Archive Offices in Yorkshire, see GENUKI.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.