Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PATRINGTON

PATRINGTON, a small town, a parish, and a district, in E. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the Hull and Holderness railway, 1½ mile N of the Humber and 14 E S E of Hull; is thought to occupy the site of a temporary Roman station; was an important place long before the time of the Norman conquest; is now a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office‡ under Hull, a railway station with telegraph, a banking office, a church, threedissenting chapels, a subscription library, a workhouse, and charities £7. The church is of the time of Edward II.; exhibits fine features of both decorated and later English; comprises nave, transepts, and chancel, with tower and spire 180 feet high, the spire repaired in 1810; and contains a monolithic granite font, three sedilia withcrocketted pinnacles, and an Easter sepulchre. There are maltings, breweries, flour-mills, and flax-mills. A Roman altar and Roman coins have been found in the neighbourhood. The parish comprises 3, 180 acres of land, and 1, 314 of water. Real property, £9, 124, of which £37 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 1,827; in 1861, 1, 724. Houses, 363. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to W. Marshall, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £900.* Patron, Clare College, Cambridge. The district comprehends also the parishes of Paul, Burstwick, Keyingham, Ottringham, Winestead, Sunk-Island, Welwick, Skeffling, Kilnsea, Easington, Holmpton, Hollym, Owthorne, Halsham, Burton-Pidsea, Tunstall, Hilston, part of Roos, and the township of Owstwick. Acres, 88, 872. Poor-rates in 1863, £3, 771. Pop. in 1851, 9, 407; in 1861, 9, 681. Houses, 2,008. Marriages in 1863, 55; births, 316, of which 34 wereillegitimate; deaths, 234, of which 85 were at ages under 5 years, and 8 at ages above 85. Marriages in the tenyears 1851-60, 579; births, 3, 223; deaths, 1, 906. The places of worship, in 1851, were 19 of the Church of England, with 5, 137 sittings; 1 of Independents, with 230s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 1, 998 s.; and 12 of Primitive Methodists, with 1, 217 s. The schools were 14 publicday schools, with 570 scholars; 29 private day schools, with 479 s.; 19 Sunday schools, with 922 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 7 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Patrington AP/CP       Patrington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Patrington

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