In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Goodmanham like this:
GOODMANHAM, or Godmanham, a village and a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence at the SW verge of the Wolds, 1¾ mile NE of Market-Weighton r. station; is the Godmundingaham of Bede; was the site of the chief pagan temple in Northumbria, destroyed by Coisi, the high priest of the pagan religion of York, on his conversion to Christianity in the time of King Edwin; and is surrounded by substructions in the soil, which indicate it to have been anciently a place of note. ...
The parish comprises 2, 930 acres. Post town, Market-Weighton, under Brough. Real property, £3, 915. Pop., 294. Houses, 57. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Valne, £447.* Patron, Rev. J. Blow. The church is mainly Norman; is thought to have been built with materials from the ancient pagan temple; and is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Goodmanham through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Goodmanham, in East Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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