Goxhill, East Riding of Yorkshire explained

Country:England
Coordinates:53.886°N -0.1993°W
Label Position:left
Official Name:Goxhill
Static Image:St Giles Church, Goxhill.jpg
Static Image Caption:St Giles church, Goxhill
Civil Parish:Hatfield
Unitary England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Lieutenancy England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency Westminster:Beverley and Holderness
Post Town:HULL
Postcode District:HU11
Postcode Area:HU
Dial Code:01964
Os Grid Reference:TA184448
London Distance Mi:160
London Direction:S

Goxhill is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Hatfield, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 2miles south-west of Hornsea town centre. In 1931 the parish had a population of 70.[1]

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Great Hatfield and Little Hatfield to form Hatfield.[2]

The parish church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building.

In 1823, Goxhill parish was in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. At the time, the parish church was undergoing repairs, begun in 1818. The population was 70, which included five farmers. In 1840 the population was 65, again with five farmers, the parish land of 880acres the property of Rev Charles Constable, who had been patron of the St Giles Church incumbent since 1823.[3] [4]

Goxhill was served from 1865 to 1953 by Wassand railway station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Population statistics Goxhill CP/AP through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 24 November 2023.
  2. Web site: Goxhill AP/CP Yorkshire through time – Administrative history of Parish-level unit: hierarchies, boundaries . . University of Portsmouth & others . 2008 . 3 September 2017.
  3. Book: Baines, Edward. Edward Baines (1774–1848)

    . Edward Baines (1774–1848). 1823. History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. 211.

  4. White, William (1840); History, Gazetteer and Directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, p. 279