Harpham Yorkshire Family History Guide
Harpham is a chapelry of Burton Agnes Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1720
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HARPHAM, a village and a parish in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands near the Hull and Scarborough railway, 1 mile N by E of Burton-Agnes r. station, and 5 NE of Great Driffield; was the birth-place of St. John of Beverley; and has a post-office under Hull.
The parish comprises 1,970 acres. Real property, £3,002. Pop., 274. Houses, 47. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the St. Quintins, from the Conquest till 1777, and has vestiges of their mansion.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Burton-Agnes, in the diocese of York. The church is mainly ancient, with a tower, but was partly rebuilt in 1827; and it has stained glass windows with the arms and pedigree of the St, Quintins, and contains three brasses with effigies, a stone coffin, a monument of a St. Quintin, and a very curious font.
There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Driffield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Dickering
- Poor Law Union: Driffield
- Hundred: Dickering
- Province: York