Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CAVE (North)

CAVE (North), a township in Howden district, and a parish in Howden and Pocklington districts, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 4½ miles NE of Staddlethorpe r. station, and 6¾ S by E of Market Weighton; and has a post office‡ under Brough, Yorkshire. Acres, 3,270. Real property, £5,489. Pop., 976. Houses, 219. The parish contains also the townships of South Cliff and Drewton-with-Everthorpe. Acres, 6,913. Real property, £9,358. Pop., 1,281. Houses, 269. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £247.* Patrons, H. and S. Burton. The church is good; and there are three dissenting chapels and an endowed school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place names: CAVE     |     CAVE NORTH     |     NORTH CAVE
Place: North Cave

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