Place:Ryhill and Camerton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ryhill and Camerton from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887: "Ryhill and Camerton, township (ry. sta. Rye Hill), Burstwick and Paull [parishes], East Riding Yorkshire, 2½ miles SE. of Hedon, 1571 [acres], [population] 275." [edit] Ryhill the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Ryehill is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of Hull city centre and lies just south of the A1033 road, (the main road from Hull to Withernsea). The hamlet itself consists of 15 or so houses. Ryehill is surrounded by fields and grazing land, but is within walking distance of the villages of Thorngumbald and Keyingham. NOTE: Wikipedia spells the hamlet as both Ryhill and Ryehill, but Rye Hill was the name of the railway station. [edit] Camerton the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Camerton is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of Hull city centre and lies just north of the A1033 road.

Together, the hamlets were a township in the ancient parish of Burstwick. Ryhill and Camerton became a single civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 and the parish joined the Patrington Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and Ryhill and Camerton was absorbed into the Thorngumbald in the Holderness Rural District.

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Holderness

This is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington.

From 1974 to 1996 Holderness lay within the Borough of Holderness in the short-lived county of Humberside. Holderness was the name of an ancient administrative area called a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the 1888 Local Government Act and the 1894 Local Government Act. The city of Kingston upon Hull lies in the southwest corner of Holderness and the town of Bridlington borders the northeast, but both are usually considered to be outside Holderness. The main towns include Beverley, Withernsea, Hornsea and Hedon. The Holderness Coast stretches from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head.
(Source: Wikipedia)