Place:Portington and Cavil, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NamePortington and Cavil
Alt namesPortington and Cavilsource: from redirect
Portingtonsource: hamlet in parish
Cavilsource: hamlet in parish
Portington and Cavillesource: GENUKI
TypeTownship, Civil parish
Coordinates53.769°N 0.8075°W
Located inEast Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
Humberside, England     (1974 - 1996)
East Riding of Yorkshire, England     (1996 - )
See alsoEastrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandancient parish in which the township was located
Howdenshire Wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandwapentake in which the parish was located
Howden Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district in which it was situated 1894-1935
Eastrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, Englandcivil parish into which the area was transferred in 1935
source: Family History Library Catalog


the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Historically, Portington and Cavil was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Eastrington in the wapentake of Howdenshire. Portington is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Goole and lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of the A614 road. The smaller hamlet of Cavil is about 1 mile to the southwest.

From 1894 until 1935, Portington and Cavil formed a civil parish within in Howden Rural District. In 1935 the civil parish was abolished and the area was absorbed by Eastrington.

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 Portington and Cavil. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
  • The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Eastrington provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
  • Howdenshire History provides histories of towns and villages in the area provided by a local family historian. The stories of some families who emigrated to Ontario, Canada, are included.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Portington and Cavil.
  • 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.
  • An inspection of the area around the town of Howden on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900 brings up a number places indicated by letters and the phrase "Det.". An index for the letters can be found on the right of the map. At this point Howden appears not to be one entity, but a group of separate parts. The same could be said for its townships. The reason for these separate blocks probably reflects the need to have a river frontage by various land owners over cenutries past. In 1935 many of the parishes were consolidated into fewer larger ones. Depression may have brought about many sales of large estates during the first third of the twentieth century. This, in turn, would have enabled the alteration in parish boundaries.
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