Sigglesthorne

The Ancient Parish of SIGGLESTHORNE

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]

"SIGGLESTHORNE, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Holderness, 4 miles SW. of Hornsea. The church is a large Gothic structure (see Churches for photograph), dedicated to St. Lawrence of which the Rev. Wm H. E. Bentick, A M is rector, and the King the patron. Here is a good national school, built by subscription, in 1813, and endowed with a donation of £400. left by Sir Marmaduke Constable, Bart. late of Burton Constable. There is also a girls' National School, erected in 1818, at the cost of Mrs Bentick, and supported by her benevolence. Pop. 163."

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"CATFOSS, in the parish of Sigglesthorne, wapentake and liberty Holderness; 1¾ miles NNW. of Sigglesthorne, 9½ miles NE. of Beverley; is a small hamlet situated on an eminence, and affording an extensive prospect of the neighbouring country: this hamlet was formerly the seat of the Bethels, and previously that of the Constables. Tradition says that one of the kings of Mercia resided here. Pop. 49."

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"GREAT HATFIELD, in the parishes of Mappleton and Sigglesthorne, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 2¾ miles SE. of Sigglesthorne, 4 miles SW. of Hornsea. Population 127. This village appears to have been a place of some importance, from an ancient stone cross of exquisite workmanship, which stands in the centre of the place. There is here a burial place, but no place of worship, the Chapel which formerly stood in it having been destroyed by fire about a century ago. The site of the sanctuary is marked by a large monumental stone bearing this inscription:-

HERE LIETH THE BODY OF EXPOPHER CONSTABLE, A.D. 642."

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"LITTLE HATFIELD, in the parish of Sigglesthorne, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¾ miles SE. of Sigglesthorne, 4 miles SW. of Hornsea; Population, 25."

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"SEATON, in the parish of Sigglesthorne, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1 mile NE. of Sigglesthorne, 3 miles WSW. of Hornsea. The only place of public worship is a Methodist chapel built in 1810, by subscription. Pop. 301."

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"WASSAND, in the parish of Sigglesthorne, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¼ miles ENE. of Sigglesthorne, 2 miles SW. of Hornsea; a small village pleasantly situated on the declivity of a small eminence, where stands the mansion of a branch of the Constable family; an elegant structure, built of white brick, commanding a full prospect of that extensive lake, called Hornsea Mere."