Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Rimswell, a village and a township in Owthorne parish, E.R. Yorkshire, 4½ miles N of Patrington, 2½ from Withernsea station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Withernsea. Acreage, 1234; population, 123. The manor belongs to the Clifford-Constable family. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Owthorne | |
| Poor Law union | Patrington | |
| Riding | East | |
| Wapentake | Holderness |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rimswell from the following:
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 Rimswell 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: