Place:Kelleythorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

NOTE: A Vision of Britain through Time and the Family History Library Catalog link Kelleythorpe with Elmswell or Emswell in one unit. The two hamlets, despite being in different civil and ecclesiastical parishes, were united as one registration district for censuses and civil registration during the latter half of the 19th century.

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Kelleythorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England where it forms part of the civil parish of Kirkburn. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds on the A614 road near to its junction with the A164 road. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of Driffield town centre.

Historically, Kelleythorpe was in the ecclesiastical parish of Great Driffield in the wapentake of Harthill. From 1894 until 1935 it was part of Eastburn (near Driffield) civil parish. In 1935 Eastburn civil parish was absorbed into Kirkburn civil parish. Both parishes were part of the Driffield Rural District.

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 Kelleythorpe. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Great Driffield provides a list of useful resources for the local area.

A Vision of Britain through Time on Kelleythorpe (labelled Emswell).

• 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.