Kilnsea Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kilnsea is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Spurn Head and Spurn.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1711
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include:
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KILNSEA, a parish in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, at the mouth of the Humber, 8½ miles SE of Patrington r. station. Post town, Easington, under Hull.
Acres, 11, 036; of which 10, 026 are water. Real property, £1, 474. Pop., 179. Houses, 37. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Sir A. Constable.
Spurn Head, with its lighthouses, forms the SE extremity. Large portions of the land have been swept away by the sea; and even portions which remain are overflowed by high tides, and threatened with destruction. Some Roman relics have been found.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £120. Patron, L. Thompson, Esq. The old church was destroyed by the advancing waves in 1826. The new church was built in 1865; and is in the early English style, of dark red brick, with white bands and stone coignes saved from the church.
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: Patrington
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: South Holderness
- Poor Law Union: Patrington
- Hundred: Holderness
- Province: York