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This page contains the Extra-Parochial places for the East Riding in 1892.

ARGAM (EXTRA-PAROCHIAL). Wapentake and Petty Sessional Division of Dickering - County Council Electoral Division of Hunmanby - Poor Law Union, County Court District, and Rural Deanery of Bridlington - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

Argam, or Ergham, is a small parish lying between Hunmanby and Rudston, with Grindall on the east, and Burton Fleming on the west. Its entire area is 559 acres, rateable value £567, and population 40. The whole parish is comprised in three farms. The soil is sand, gravel, and wold chalk, the subsoil chalk and gravel, and the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. Colonel Yarburgh G. Lloyd-Greame, Mr. Richard Holtby, of Nafferton, and Mr. David Holtby, of Grindall are the principal landowners.

Argam is an extra-parochial place. The church, which was dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was taken down long ago, and no institution is recorded subsequent to 1605. The living is a vicarage, now united to Sewerby-with-Marton and-Grindall, and the inhabitants attend the church at the last-named place.

Extending longitudinally through the parish are some earthworks, known a Ergham Dykes. They have been very generally attributed to the Romans, but were more probably the work of the ancient Britons. In 1869 some Roman coins which had long lain hid, were brought to light in a very curious way. They were found in a mole-hill which the little miner had thrown up, and were in very good preservation.

LITTLE KELK (EXTRA-PAROCHIAL). Wapentake and Petty Sessional Division of Dickering - County Council Electoral Division of Beeford - Poor Law Union and County Court District of Driffield.

Little Kelk is an extra-parochial liberty or district containing 727 acres and 70 inhabitants. It is situated six miles north-east of Driffield, and about one mile east of Lowthorpe station, on the Hull and Scarborough branch of the North-Eastern Railway. Its rateable value is £1,142. The soil is chalky, and wheat, oats, and barley are the chief crops under cultivation. The township adjoins Great Kelk, and is divided into three farms. W. H. St. Quintin, Esq., J.P. (lord of the manor), Mr. J. Nightingale (Bridlington), and Mr. ZR. Coultas (Wold Newton) are the principal landowners. The village consists of about half-a-dozen houses and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The latter was built in 1861, at a cost of £120. It will accommodate 80 persons. The place is mentioned in Domesday Book, wherein it is spelt Chelche , that is (in modern English), chalk; but since neither Little or Great Kelk is situated on the chalk hills, it is not easy to surmise how these places received their names.

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

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  • Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades in Bulmer's Directory of 1892.


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