Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire explained

Static Image Name:Kilham church.jpg
Static Image Caption:All Saints Church
Country:England
Coordinates:54.064°N -0.379°W
Label Position:bottom
Official Name:Kilham
Population:1,088
Population Ref:(2011 census)
Civil Parish:Kilham
Unitary England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Lieutenancy England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency Westminster:Bridlington and the Wolds
Post Town:DRIFFIELD
Postcode District:YO25
Postcode Area:YO
Dial Code:01262
Os Grid Reference:TA0664
London Distance Mi:175
London Direction:S

Kilham is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated about 5miles north-east of Driffield town centre. According to the 2011 UK census, Kilham parish had a population of 1,088, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,010.

History

Kilham lies on the line of a Roman road from York to Bridlington, now followed by the minor road known as Woldgate. Pevsner notes that the village is more than a 1miles in length along this main street.[1] To the south of Kilham there is evidence of a Romano-British settlement from the 4th century.[2] The settlement is mentioned as Chillun in the Domesday Book, though without a population.[3] The name of the village derives from the Old English Cylnum, meaning at the kilns.[4]

Kilham, which lies in a narrow valley on the southern edge of the wolds, was once an important market town in the Yorkshire Wolds, bigger and more important than Driffield at one time.[5] It held annual trading fairs and had a large number of businesses and a considerable population. The town declined in size and status following the building of the Driffield Navigation, which took trade away from Kilham to nearby Driffield, however, the village was already floundering in terms of trade long before the canal was cut.[6]

In 1823 Kilham civil parish was in the Wapentake of Dickering and the Liberty of St Peter's.[7] A market had previously been held on Thursdays. The parish church was under the patronage of the Dean of York. A mineral spring near the road to Rudston was supposed curative for disorders. A further spring, called Henpit Hole, was near the road to Langtoft; during a wet autumn it would spout with "violence". A Methodist chapel was first built in 1789, and a Baptist chapel existed in the village by 1819. The population at the time was 971.[8]

Occupations included twenty-two farmers, seven shoemakers, five grocers, three of whom were also drapers, four blacksmiths, four tailors, four bricklayers, three joiners, two butchers, two glove makers, a brick & tile maker, a draper, a bacon factor (wholesale tradesman), a plumber & glazier, a bookseller, a saddler, a fellmonger, a corn miller, a gardener & seedsman, and the landlords of the Royal Oak, Plough, Star, and Black Bull public houses. Within the parish were two surgeons, a schoolmaster, four gentlemen and two gentlewomen, a Baptist minister, a curate and a vicar, a yeoman, an Esquire, two Royal Navy masters and a Royal Navy lieutenant. Two carriers operated between the village and Driffield, Beverley, Hull, and Bridlington once a week.[9]

Community

Kilham's Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints. The church holds an annual flower festival. Outside the church is a grade II listed tethering ring in a stone block – evidence of the cattle trade and bull-baiting which once took place in the village. There is also a cast-iron water pump opposite the church.

At one time there were six schools in the village, but only one now remains, Kilham C. of E. primary school, which was rated as good by Ofsted in 2015.[10] In 1633, Lord John Darcy of Aston opened a grammar school in the village. It was closed by 1880 when the site was redeveloped as a temperance hall.

In 2010 the Kilham Playing Field Association opened a recreational playing field on Back Lane, to provide a full-sized football pitch, a 5-a-side football pitch, grass tennis courts, adventure playground and cycle track. The Association, a registered charity, has been funded locally and through the Big Lottery fund and Grassroots.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Pevsner . Nikolaus . Neave . David . Neave . Susan . Yorkshire - York and the East Riding . 2005 . Yale University Press . New Haven . 0300095937 . 575.
  2. Web site: Heritage Gateway – Results Monument Number 910829 . www.heritagegateway.org.uk . 29 March 2021.
  3. Web site: Kilham Domesday Book . opendomesday.org . 12 November 2023.
  4. Book: Smith . A. H. . Place-names of East Riding of Yorkshire and York . 1970 . 1937. Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 0-521-04907-5 . 97.
  5. Book: Allison . Keith John . The East Riding of Yorkshire Landscape . 1976 . Hodder & Stoughton . London . 0340158212 . 52.
  6. Book: Allison . Keith John . The East Riding of Yorkshire Landscape . 1976 . Hodder & Stoughton . London . 0340158212 . 223.
  7. Web site: Genuki: Kilham, Yorkshire (East Riding) . genuki.org.uk . 12 November 2023.
  8. Book: Page . William . The Victoria history of the county of York. vol 3 . 1907 . Constable & Co . London . 489. 500092527.
  9. Book: Baines, Edward. Edward Baines (1774–1848)

    . Edward Baines (1774–1848). 1823. History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. 359, 360.

  10. Web site: Kilham Church of England Voluntary Controlled School URN: 117980 . reports.ofsted.gov.uk . 12 November 2023 . 8 October 2020.
  11. Web site: Kilham Playing Field Association - Prosiect Cronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol . tnlcommunityfund.org.uk . 13 November 2023.
  12. News: Searby . Martin . Byas quits again for life on farm . 29 March 2021 . The Telegraph . 5 December 2002. subscription.
  13. Web site: Papers of Henry Thompson . 28 September 2006 . dead . https://archive.today/20120720022850/http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03011503.html . 20 July 2012 .