Nunburnholme Yorkshire Family History Guide
Nunburnholme is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Thorpe le Street.
Alternative names: Nun Burnholme
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1586
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NUN-BURNHOLME, a township and a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the W side of the Wolds, 1¼ mile N E of Burn by r. station, and 3 E by S of Pocklington; and contains a small village of its own name. Acres, 1, 480. Real property, £2, 118. Pop., 248. Houses, 50.
The parish contains also the township of Thorpe-le-Street, and comprises 2, 137 acres. Post-town, Hayton, under York. Real property, £2, 904. Pop., 281. Houses, 55. The property is divided among a few. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in the time of Henry III., by Roger de Morlais.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value. £350. Patron, the Arch bishop of York. The church is not good.
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: Pocklington
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard’s Hospital, York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
- Poor Law Union: Pocklington
- Hundred: Harthill
- Province: York