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Wressle, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1868.

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WRESSLE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868.

"WRESSLE, (or Wressell), a parish in the Holme-Beacon division of Harthill wapentake, East Riding county York, 3¾ miles N.W. of Howden, and 25 from Hull, by the Hull, Selby, and Milford Junction branch of the North-Eastern railway, on which it is a station. It is situated on the river Derwent, over which the railway passes on an iron bridge of seven arches. The parish contains the hamlets of Brind, or Bourne, Newsholme, and Loftsome, at which last is a bridge, erected in 1800, at a cost of £4,000. At the time of the Domesday survey it was held by Gilbert Tyson, and came in the 13th century to the Percys, who built the castle, described by Leland as forming a quadrangle, with square towers, in which the Earls of Northumberland lived in state. This castle was forfeited by the Percys after the battle of Shrewsbury, but was restored to them in 1457, and in 1650 was taken and dismantled, by order of parliament. In the middle of the 18th century it became the property of the Wyndhams, was burnt in 1796, and is now a ruin. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of York, value £160. The church is dedicated to St. John of Beverley."


"BRIND, a hamlet in the parish of Wressle, wapentake of Harthill, in the East Riding of the county of York, 2 miles to the N. of Howden. It is situated close to the Hull, Selby, and Milford Junction railway."


"LOFTSOME, a hamlet in the parish of Wressle, Holme Beacon, division of the wapentake of Harthill, East Riding county York, 3 miles N.W. of Howden. It is situated on the banks of the river Derwent, which is here crossed by a bridge, erected at the commencement of the present century, and so constructed as to admit the passage of vessels."


"NEWSHOLME, (or Newsham), a hamlet in the parish of Wressle, Holme Beacon division of Harthill wapentake, East Riding county York, 2 miles N.W. of Howden. It is joined with Brind to form a township."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013