Grimthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Grimthorpe, a hamlet in Great Givendale parish, E.R. Yorkshire, 3½ miles NE of Pocklington station on the N.E.R. It gives the title of Baron Grimthorpe in the British peerage to Edmund Beckett.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Givendale | |
Poor Law union | Pocklington | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Harthill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Grimthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grimthorpe)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: