Lund Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.

LUND:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892.

Wapentake of Harthill - Petty Sessional Division of Bainton Beacon - County Council Electoral Division of Etton- - Poor Law Union and County Court District of Beverley - Rural Deanery of Harthill - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

This parish is situated on the Wolds, and in its name bears evidence of the occupation of the district by the Norsemen - lundr, in their language, signifying a grove. Its area, according to the Ordnance Survey, is 3,078 acres; the rateable value, £3,629, and the number of inhabitants, 416.. The soil is a rich loam resting on clay, and the chief crops are wheat, barley, and turnips. Lord Hotham, who is lord of the manor; the Earl of Londesborough; Dr. Barnes Wood, London; the vicar in right of his church; Lady Du Cane; Mr. Thomas Holtby, Rotsea; and Mr. William Hutchiuson, Bolton-le-Moor, are the principal land owners.

The manor anciently belonged to the Thwengs, one of whom in 1293 obtained from Edward I. a charter of free warren in all his demesne in the lordship of Lund, as also a grant of a weekly market on Thursday, and a fair upon the eve, day, and morrow of All Saints (Nov. 1). This market has long been obsolete, but the ancient market cross remains in the centre of the village. The manor afterwards passed to the Jarratts, who had a seat here, and from them it descended to the Broadleys.

The village is situated on the road from Driffield to Beverley, seven miles north-west from the latter place, and four miles west from Lockington station, on the Hull and Scarborough branch of the North Eastern railway. The church of All Saints' is a building of stone in the Gothic style consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and a western tower with pinnacles. The chancel was rebuilt in 1845-6, and in 1853 the nave, north aisle, porch, and upper part of the tower were thoroughly restored, at a total cost of £1,095. There are several monuments in the church, and also two mutilated effigies which formerly belonged to an ancient monumental tomb, probably that of Edmund Thwaites, Esq., of Lund, who died in 1500, desiring his body to be buried in the "Chappell of Our Lady," which he had newly built on the north side of the church. Sir Henry Thwaites, Knt., of Lund, who died in 1520, was buried in the chancel.

Sir William de Thweng, Knt., in 1339 founded and endowed a chantry in this church, where mass should be celebrated daily for ever for the salvation of his own soul and that of his wife, and also for the souls of his parents. The register dates from the year 1587. The church was given to the Priory of Wartre, and in 1268 it was appropriated to the Prior and Convent and a vicarage ordained. It remained in the patronage of that house till the Reformation, when it reverted to the Crown, and was granted away by Queen Elizabeth. It is now in the gift of the Rev. Alexander Grimston, M.A., and held in conjunction with Kilnwick by the Rev. Chas. Sundius Sundius, M.A., Oxon. The joint net value of the living, which is called Lund-with-Kilnwick, is about £280, including 321 acres of glebe.

There are chapels in the village belonging to the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; the former was built in 1835, and the latter with Sunday school attached in 1871, at a cost of £612.

A new National School was erected in 1866, for the accommodation of 140 children, and there are about 60 in average attendance. It is endowed with the interest of twenty guineas, left by Mr. John Mosey, who died in 1813.

The Manor House occupies the site of the ancient hall, the residence of the Jarratts, former owners of the manor. Enthorpe House is situated at the western extremity of the parish. Near it is Enthorpe station, on the Market Weighton and Driffield branch of the North Eastern railway. The station is locally in the parish of Goodmanham, and close by is one of the deepest cuttings through the chalk on the line.

On Layer Hill farm are several mounds or harrows, one of which was opened some years ago by Canon Greenwell, and two skeletons were found therein.

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

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