Gilberdyke, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Gilberdyke, a large village and a township in Eastrington, Blacktoft, and Laxton parishes, E.R. Yorkshire, half a mile from Staddlethorpe station on the Hull and Selby railway, 5¼ miles ENE of Howden. The township includes the hamlets of Sandholrne, Hive, and Owsthorpe, and has a post office under Brough; money order and telegraph office, Newport. Acreage, 1042; population, 293. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 Gilberdyke 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: