Burton Pidsea Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.

BURTON PIDSEA:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892.

Wapentake of Holderness (Middle Division) - Petty Sessional Division of Middle Holderness - County Council Electorial Division of Withernsea - Poor Law Union and County Court District of Patrington - Rural Deanery of Hedon - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

This parish and township containing 2,302 acres is part of the liberty of St. Peter, York, and is sometimes called Burton St. Peter. In Domesday Book it appears as Burton only, but as there are several other Burtons, distinguishing name was subsequently added to each. The addendum in the present case has been variously written Pidsea, Pudsea, Pitsey, and several other ways, but its signification has not been very satisfactorily explained. It is said by some to be derived from Hugh de Pudsey, treasurer of the cathedral church of York, and afterwards Bishop of Durham, whom they suppose to have been sub-lord of the manor; but there is no documentary evidence to prove that Pudsey had ever any connection with this place. In some old deeds it is called Burton-by-th'-Sea,* and, suggests a writer, possibly the full name of the place may be a corruption of Burton-per-sea. As the name was formerly written Pidsey Burton, this derivation does not seem very probable. Sir F. A. T. Clifford-Constable, Bart., is lord of the manor; and the Rev. T. W. Prickett; Henry Cautley, Burton Pidsea; Edward Baxter Harland, Burton Pidsea; William Baxter, C.C., Burton Pidsea; Mrs. Robinson, Nuthill, Burstwick; Christopher Sykes, Esq.. M.P.; James Watson, Esq., Hedon; Edward Stamford, Burton Pidsea; and the Raines family are the principal landowners. The soil and subsoil are clay. Wheat, beans, oats, and barley are the chief crops. The rateable value is £3,303, and the population in 1891 was 342, showing a decrease of 10 during the past decade.

The village is well-built and picturesque, and commands extensive prospects of the surrounding country. It is distant 10qh miles east-by-north from Hull, five miles east from Hedon, and three-and-a-half miles north-east from Rye Hill station, on the Hull and Withernsea branch of the North-Eastern railway. The church, of which the dedication is, according to the Diocesan Calendar, S.S. Peter and Paul, though ascribed in later years to St. Peter only, is an ancient building of stone, in the Later English style. It comprises a chancel, south chapel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing three bells. The fabric was restored in 1867, when several modern alterations, which spoiled the internal aspect of the edifice, were happily removed. The roof of the chancel, ceiled at some repairs in 1838, undertaken at the expense of Mr. Clapham, has been opened out to the timbers; but it is to be regretted that the chancel was not raised to its original height, being at present two or three feet lower than the arch which divides it from the nave. The south chapel, which was dedicated to St. Mary, is separated from the chancel by two pointed arches, supported by an octagonal pier. There are here three windows, of three lights each, filled with stained glass by the late Joseph Robertson Raines, in memory of his brothers and sisters. Ther is a very handsome memorial window erected by the above gentleman, previous to his death, a space being left for the insertion of the date. He died in 1884, and was the last person interred within the walls of the church. The nave is divided from the aisles by three pointed arches springing from octagonal pillars. The old porch was taken down some years ago, and rebuilt of brick. The ancient piscinas remain. The church was reseated at the restoration, with open benches of pitchpine, to accommodate 350 persons. The living was formerly a discharged vicarage, but the rectorial tithes have been restored by the dissolution of the appropriation, formerly enjoyed by the Dean and Chapter of York. It is worth £250 a year. The tithe rent-charge (according to the old modus) is £142 17s. 6d. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners pay annually £64, and the rector also receives a rent-charge of £25 on the old glebe lands conveyed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Clapham family, and now in the possession of Mr. Henry Cautley, who is also the lay impropriator. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of York; rector, the Rev. Richard Martindell Lamb, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge.

The Rectory House is a commodious residence of red brick, built by the late Canon Trevor, at a cost of nearly £2,000.

There is a small chapel here belonging to the Wesleyans, erected in 1847. The National School was built in 1868, on the site of a row of almshouses. It is mixed, and is attended by about 42 children. There are several good houses in the village, and an iron and brass foundry, carried on by Mr. John Stamford.

The Clapham family were long resident here. Mr. Poulson, in his "History of Holderness," has given their pedigree, extracted from an ancient vellum MS. in the possession of the family. They are therein said to be descended from Jonas, third son of Alphonso, Duke of Lorraine, sixth son of Pharamond, King of France, who had lands given him at Clapham, in Surrey, by a Saxon king. With very little further exertion of the imagination, the genealogist could have carried the pedigree further back than the reign of the mythical Pharamond, and found an ancestor in that other Jonas, the hero of the whale story. William Clapham, Esq., a proctor of the court of York, settled at Burton Pidsea in the latter part of the 17th century, having purchased the property previously owned by the Chatts. They intermarried with the Raines, another family of local note.

* A large portion of this district was in early ages covered with water.

[Description(s) from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)]

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