Great Hatfield, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Hatfield, Great, a township in Mappleton and Sigglesthorne parishes, E.R. Yorkshire, 3¼ miles SSW of Hornsea, and 1 mile from Sigglesthome station on the N.E.R.. Post town, Hull; money order office, Hornsea; telegraph office, Burton Constable railway station. Acreage, 1488; population, 147. The manor belongs to the Bethell family, and the manor-house is occupied by a farmer. An ancient wayside cross is here, 9 feet high, of beautiful workmanship, with couching lions at the base. There is a small mission church, built in 1890 in the Early English style.
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 Great Hatfield are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: