•  Holme upon Spalding Moor, East Riding

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Holme upon Spalding Moor like this:

HOLME-UPON-SPALDING-MOOR, a village and a parish in Howden district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the Holme station of the Selby and Market-Weighton railway, 5½ miles SW by W of Market-Weighton; and has a post office under York. The parish comprises 11, 514 acres. Real property, £9, 823. ...

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Pop. in 1851, 1, 713; in 1861, 1, 913. Houses, 354. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the Constables; passed to the Langdales, one of whom was Sir Marmaduke, the royalist general; and passed again to the Stourtons. Holme Hall and Holme House are chief residences. A hill, on which is the parish church, and on which also, in ancient times, was a beacon for guiding travellers, and for alarming the country in cases of invasion, commands delightful views as far as to Howden and York. Much of the land was long trackless moor and morass; and a cell, for two monks to act as guides to travellers across the dreary waste, stood on what is now called Monk farm. A bed of gypsum, with fossils, is in the vicinity of the Beacon hill. The shock of an earthquake was felt here on 18 Jan. 1822. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £600. * Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, had once a chantry, and in 1866 required restoration. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics, a national school, a Roman Catholic reformatory, and charities £55. The Roman Catholic reformatory is a large edifice, in the pointed style, built in 1846.

Holme upon Spalding Moor through time

Holme upon Spalding Moor is now part of East Riding of Yorkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Riding of Yorkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Holme upon Spalding Moor itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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