Beeford, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Beeford, a village, a township, and a parish in E.R. Yorkshire, 6 miles SSE of Lowthorpe station on the N.E.R., and 9 ESE of Great Driffield, with a post and money order office; telegraph office, Lowthorpe. Area, 3754 acres; population of the civil parish, 728; of the ecclesiastical, 931. The parish includes also the townships of Dunnington and Lissett. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Lissett, in the diocese of York; net value, £579 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is Perpendicular English, with a fine tower, and has a brass of 1472. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Beeford St. Leonard | |
Poor Law union | Driffield | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Holderness |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Beeford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1565-1915 | 1653-1854 | 1626-1930 | 1563-1930 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Beeford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beeford (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Beeford are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: