Parish information from Bulmers' 1892. Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892. This is a long narrow parish extending from east to west 5 miles, and having an average breadth of 1 miles. The surface is agreeably diversified, and the soil, chalk, sand, and gravel.
Chalkstone is quarried in several places, and burnt into lime for agricultural purposes.
The manor, with a large portion of the land, formerly belonged to the Boyles, Earls of Burlington, from whom it passed, by the marriage of the heiress, to the Duke of Devonshire. It was purchased by an ancestor of the present Earl of Londesborough. The new line of railway from Driffield to Market Weighton skirts the village, and places it in communication with the North-Eastern system. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient stone edifice, built in the latter part of the Norman era, on the site of one mentioned in Domesday Book. It consists of a chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and western tower containing five bells, and a clock presented by an anonymous donor.