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THE of Long Riston, lying on the edge of the Hull valley 14 km. north of Hull and 9 km. ENE. of Beverley, has been favoured since the Second World War as a commuter settlement for those towns. (fn. 1) The name, sometimes recorded as 'Ruston' or 'Reston' and perhaps meaning the 'farmstead near the brushwood' or 'inclosure overgrown with brushwood', is Anglian. The prefix, appropriate for such a straggling village, was used from the early 17th century, presumably to distinguish Riston from Ruston Parva. (fn. 2) The township of Arnold, south of the village, was divided between the ancient parishes of Long Riston, Rise, and Swine, but its history is dealt with here. The name, also Anglian, may mean 'Arna's nook of land'. (fn. 3) The settlements of 'Chenecol' or 'Chenuthesholm' and 'Luvetotholm', recorded in 1086, may have lain in Riston (fn. 4) but no more is known of them. In 1851 Long Riston parish contained 2,837 a. (1,148 ha.), comprising 1,834 a. (742 ha.) in Riston township and 1,003 a. (406 ha.) in Arnold; Arnold township also included 671 a. (272 ha.) in Swine and 6 a. (2.4 ha.) in Rise. (fn. 5) In 1885 the whole of Arnold was added to North Skirlaugh, in Swine, to form the civil parish later called North Skirlaugh, Rowton, and Arnold. (fn. 6) In 1935 that civil parish and Long Riston were united as Riston civil parish, with a total area of 4,047 a. (1,638 ha.), but in 1952 the new civil parish was reduced to 3,420 a. (1,384 ha.) and was made roughly coextensive with the old townships of Riston and Arnold. (fn. 7) In 1984 some 10 ha. (25 a.) were transferred to Rise civil parish. In 1991 the area was 1,374 ha. (3,395 a.). (fn. 8) Henceforth, to avoid ambiguity, the name Long Riston is used in this article for the village and Riston for the ancient parish.
The eastern half of the parish is on boulder clay, the ground lying at 7-12 m. above sea level around the settlements and rising to over 15 m. near Farnton hill, which is capped with sand and gravel. In the west much of the low-lying ground in the Hull valley is alluvial, with some sand and gravel. (fn. 14) The open fields of Long Riston and Arnold occupied the higher ground, with common meadows and carrs further west; the commonable lands were inclosed in 1778.
LONG RISTON VILLAGE AND ARNOLD HAMLET. Most of the older houses in Long Riston are strung out for c. 1 km. along Main Street, with a few in a short cul-de-sac on the west side of the street named after the Lauty family. The church stands isolated in the fields near the north end of the village, approached by footpaths and by a carriage road set out at inclosure in 1778 and overgrown by 1989. (fn. 22) The hamlet of Arnold lies a short distance west of the main road and close to Long Riston village, to which it is linked by a pedestrian roadway under the bypass. Few of the houses in either settlement are noteworthy. Those in Long Riston include the single-storeyed Whinns Cottage, formerly called Overseer's Cottage, (fn. 23) a terrace of small, 19th-century cottages, another terrace of four Gothic-style houses dated 1871, and 24 council houses built on a site acquired in 1945. (fn. 24) Infilling with new houses was continuing in 1989.
A manor of CHENECOL, comprising 1 carucate and held in 1066 by Gamel, was presumably the same as that of CHENUTHESHOLM, also of 1 carucate. The latter had passed from Knut to William Malet, who was deprived c. 1070, and in 1086 both belonged to Drew de Bevrère. Another carucate formed LUVETOTHOLM manor; it had belonged to Luvetote before passing in turn to Malet and Bevrère. (fn. 118) No more is known of them.
The remaining commonable lands in Long Riston and Arnold were inclosed in 1778 under an Act of 1771; the award also dealt with some adjoining grounds in Benningholme (in Swine). (fn. 127) Allotments were made totalling 1,634 a. in Long Riston, 1,412 a. in Arnold, and 95 a. in Benningholme. In Long Riston they comprised more than 714 a. from East field, over 579 a. from West field, and 211 a. from the carr; in Arnold 327 a. came from East field, 424 a. from West field, 131 a. from Arnold ings, and 528 a. from the carr, together with 4 a. in an outgang. In Long Riston William Bethell was allotted 905 a., Peter Nevill 228 a., Joseph Williamson 137 a., and the rector 129 a., there were four allotments of 30-80 a. and five of up to 10 a. In Arnold, Bethell was allotted 900 a., representatives of the late Daniel Whitaker 141 a., Mann Horsfield 125 a., and the rector 51 a.; there were three other allotments of 20-80 a. and seven of up to 12 a.
Missionary visits to Long Riston were paid by members of Fish Street chapel, Hull, c. 1800, and a barn was fitted up for worship in 1803. The house licensed there in 1803 perhaps comprised the barn. (fn. 176) An Independent chapel was built in Lauty Lane, Long Riston, in 1837. (fn. 177) It was sold to the Wesleyan Methodists in 1872, (fn. 178) and services were held there until 1920; (fn. 179) it was used as a storehouse in 1989. A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in Main Street, Long Riston, in 1836 (fn. 180) and closed in 1977; (fn. 181) it was derelict in 1989.
2. P.N. Yorks. E.R. (E.P.N.S.), 70.
4. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 267, 295.
5. O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CXCVI, CCXI (1855 edn.); Census, 1871.
6. Census, 1891 (pt. ii).
7. E.R.A.O., CCO/465; Census, 1931 (pt. ii); 1961; above, Swine, N. and S. Skirlaugh, intros.
8. E.R.A.O., Holderness (Parishes) Order 1983; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Yorks. CCXII. 1 (1891 edn:); Census, 1991.
9. P.R.O., E 179/202/60, m. 60.
11. Above, Swine, N. Skirlaugh, intro.
12. Herring's Visit. ii, p. 89; no figure for Riston was given in 1764.
13. V.C.H. Yorks. iii. 495; Census; 1851, 1881-1931, 1961-91.
14. Geol. Surv. Map 1", drift, sheets 72-3 (1909 edn.).
15. Monastic Notes (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xvii), 136; Public Works in Med. Law, ii (Selden Soc. xl), pp. 345-6.
17. R.D.B., BB/73/13; H.U.L., DSJ/62, pp. 112 sqq.; O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CCXI (1855 edn.).
19. Para. based on J. A. Sheppard, Draining of Hull Valley (E. Yorks. Loc. Hist. Ser. viii), passim; V.C.H. Yorks. E.R. vi. 278-9. For the channels made by Meaux abbey, below, Wawne, intro. Inf. from Environment Agency, Willerby, 2000.
20. Humbs. C.C. Mins. 1979-80, F 2113; plaque at underpass.
21. T. Jefferys, Map of Yorks. (1772).
25. E.R.A.O., QDT/2/6, 9; directories.
26. Directories; E.R. Licensing Cttee. Mins. 1904-23, 187.
27. D. Neave, E.R. Friendly Soc. (E. Yorks. Loc. Hist. Ser. xli), 65.
28. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 487.
29. R.D.B., 970/168/142; 970/169/143; 999/5/4.
30. 'Some Hist. Notes' (copy in church, 1989), 3; O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CCXI. NE. (1928 edn.).
32. A. Bryant, Map of E.R. Yorks. (1829).
33. E.R.A.O., DDRI/accession 2980, map with incl. award; T. Jefferys, Map of Yorks. (1772); below, manors; econ. hist.
34. O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CXCVII (1854 edn.); above, Rise, intro.
35. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 265.
36. Early Yorks. Fam. (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. cxxxv), 82-3; Chron. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), i. 97.
37. Yorks. Fines, 1272-1300, p. 13.
38. Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, p. 352.
39. Chron. de Melsa, i. 97-8; Yorks. Inq. iii, pp. 26-7; Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 185; vii, p. 385; Feud. Aids, vi. 163.
41. Ibid. DDRI/35/1; B.L. Add. Ch. 5421; Cal. Fine R. 1422-30, 220; 1445-52, 39; Chron. de Melsa, i. 97-8. Cf. the slightly different descent of Nuthill manor in V.C.H. Yorks. E.R. v. 11.
42. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 66; Rot. Parl. v. 476-83.
43. Cal. Pat. 1461-7, 454; 1467-77, 457-8.
44. Ibid. 1476-85, 72; Rot. Parl. vi. 175-6.
45. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 421.
46. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 50; P.R.O., C 1/291/49; ibid. REQ 2/1/35; V.C.H. Yorks. E.R. v. 11 (where the name is given as Fretwell).
47. Yorks. Fines, ii. 15.
48. E.R.A.O., DDRI/22/65, 70, 73. For Barnby pedigree, see Visit. Yorks. 1584-5 and 1612, ed. J. Foster, 339.
49. For pedigree, see J. Foster, Pedigrees of Yorks. iii.
51. Ibid. DDRI/22/96-7, 101, 114, 121, 148, 150, 161, 166, 169-70, 178, 187, 202; DDRI/35/21.
52. For pedigree, see Burke, Land. Gent. (1969), ii. 46-7.
54. Ibid. 170/289/242; 408/90/75; book of plans of estates of H. Bethell, at Rise Park Estate Off.; valuation of estates of Ric. Bethell, 1852, in E.R.A.O., DDRI/accession 2980, box 2.
55. R.D.B., 1813/436/364; inf. from Rise Park Estate Off. 1990.
56. E.R.A.O., DDRI/22/65, 96; Yorks. Inq. iii, p. 26; Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 185.
57. O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CXCVI (1855 edn.).
59. Ibid. CN/117/186; E.R.A.O., PE/89/2.
60. R.D.B., FP/227/233; IU/326/450; E.R.A.O., PE/89/7.
61. R.D.B., LP/36/51; 57/251/237 (1893); 191/470/399; H.U.L., DDX/16/123.
62. R.D.B., 240/378/320; 618/510/343; 914/494/439; inf. from Mrs. Caley, Church Farm, Routh, and Mr. W. T. Kirkwood, Criftins Farm, Long Riston, 1998.
63. Poulson, Holderness, i. 348.
65. Inf. from Mrs. Caley, Routh, 1998.
66. R.D.B., BB/73/13; BL/223/339; CO/347/541; E.R.A.O., PE/106/3.
67. R.D.B., EP/56/70; GX/334/389; 184/285/239; 399/ 286/235.
68. Ibid. 1232/177/165; inf. from Mr. W. T. Kirkwood, Long Riston, 1998.
69. Cal. Inq. p.m. iv, pp. 354, 357; Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, 426; Feud. Aids, vi. 40, 163; below, this section [Meaux abbey]; Complete Peerage, s.v. Fauconberge; above, Rise, manor.
70. E.R.A.O., DDHI, 'Leaguer bk.' (Hildyards of Arnold, passim); Poulson, Holderness, ii. 220-1; Chron. de Melsa, ii. 218; Feud. Aids, vi. 40.
71. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 419.
72. E.R.A.O., DDHI, 'Leaguer bk.'; O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CCXI (1855 edn.); above, intro.
73. 'Meaux Cart.', pp. 32, 152, 250-1, 421, 570.
74. Ibid. pp. 418-19; Chron. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), i. 303, 365, 419; ii. 94, 141-2, 218; iii. 6-7; Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, 427.
75. P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/4612; Valor Eccl. v. 108.
76. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xix (2), p. 78.
77. Cal. Pat. 1569-72, p. 453.
78. Yorks. Fines, iv. 170; 1603-14, 46-7.
79. E.R.A.O., DDRI/35/6; Yorks. Royalist Composition Papers, ii (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xviii), p. 11.
82. E.R.A.O., DDRI/2/17, 21, 23, 26, 32, 46, 49, 51, 54.
83. R.D.B., BB/73/13. For the tithes, below, next para.
84. R.D.B., 170/289/242; 408/90/75; and passim; inf. from Rise Park Estate Off. 1990.
85. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xxi (1), pp. 573-5.
86. E.R.A.O., DDRI/2/46; above, Swine, Swine township, manors (rectory).
88. Chron. de Melsa, ii. 217; Cal. Chart. R. 1300-26, 9.
89. Cal. Pat. 1301-7, 524; 1307-13, 449.
90. P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/2022, m. 79.
91. L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvii, pp. 29-30.
92. Cal. Pat. 1553, 87. Some land at Woodhouse was kept by the Crown: ibid. 1580-2, pp. 6-7.
93. H.U.L., DDMC/78/1; P.R.O., C 2/Jas. 1/C 3/31; ibid. C 60/525, no. 52; J. Foster, Pedigrees of Yorks. iii, s.v. Constable of Constable Burton.
95. R.D.B., G/242/545; above, Roos, manors.
96. H.U.L., DDSY/108/3, 5; DDSY/110/23; V.C.H. Yorks. E.R. v. 12, 90.
99. Ibid. CS/519/726; EZ/89/78; HK/285/294; HT/77/97; Burke, Land. Gent. (1937), s.v. Harrison-Broadley.
100. R.D.B., EG/373/443; EK/246/271; FD/354/391; E.R.A.O., QDE/1.
102. Ibid. FH/384/408; FH/386/411; E.R.A.O., QDE/1.
103. R.D.B., HQ/197/250; HT/77/97; HW/219/263.
104. Ibid. LZ/57/78; 1/383/338 (1885); 167/236/210; 188/519/477.
105. Ibid. 572/472/376; 673/543/450; inf. from Ann Watson's Trust, 1994.
106. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 22; Yorks. Fines, 1232-46, p. 86.
107. P.R.O., C 66/1800, no. 7; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v. 114; Cal. Pat. 1553, 215. For Crown leases before 1553, see Yorks. Mon. Suppression Papers (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xlviii), 157; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvi, p. 723.
108. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 33; H.U.L., DHO/6/120; B.L. Cott. MS. Otho C. viii, ff. 79v.-81; Valor Eccl. v. 115.
109. Cal. Pat. 1553, 216.
110. Bridlington Chart., p. 225.
111. Memorials of Fountains, i. (Sur. Soc. xlii), 401, 409-10.
112. 'Meaux Cart.', pp. 152, 422; Lay Subsidy of 1334, ed. R. E. Glasscock, 368; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 421.
113. E.R.A.O., DDRI/22/1; W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 11.
114. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 421; Miscellanea, iv (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xciv), 75, 99; Cal. Pat. 1557-8, 321.
115. P.R.O., C 66/1800, no. 7; E.Y.C. ii, pp. 64-5.
116. R.D.B., AA/73/13; V.C.H. Yorks. E.R. vi. 269.
118. V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 267, 295.
119. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MSS. 14, 15, 18; E.R.A.O., DDRI/22/5, 28; Chron. de Melsa, i. 305.
120. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MSS. 19, 52; Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 185.
121. Chron. de Melsa, i. 81.
122. Long Riston and Arnold Incl. Act, 11 Geo. III, c. 92 (Priv. Act).
123. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 16.
124. Cal. Pat. 1553, 215.
126. Yorks. Deeds, viii, pp. 4-5.
127. E.R.A.O., DDRI/accession 2980, award with plan; 11 Geo. III, c. 92 (Priv. Act).
128. P.R.O., HO 67/26/266; Acreage Returns, 1905.
129. [1st] Land Util. Surv. Map, sheets 28, 33-4.
130. P.R.O., HO 107/2365; directories.
131. Inf. from Min. of Agric., Fish. & Food, Beverley, 1990.
132. W.Y.A.S., Spencer-Stanhope MS. 14; E.R.A.O., DDRI/22/15.
133. Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 185.
134. Memorials of Fountains, i. 401, 410.
136. Yorks. Fines, iii. 96.
137. Poor Law Abstract, 1804, pp. 594-5; 1818, pp. 522-3.
138. 3rd Rep. Poor Law Com. 170.
140. Humberside (Structural Change) Order 1995, copy at E.R.A.O.
141. E.Y.C. iii, p. 66.
142. B.I.H.R., OC. 458; Crockford; directories.
143. Lond. Gaz. 17 Mar. 1922, p. 2226.
144. Ibid. 14 Aug. 1956, p. 4667.
145. Inf. from the vicar, 1990; above, Swine, S. Skirlaugh, church.
146. Yorks. Fines John, p. 4; above, Hornsea, church.
149. P. Heath, Med. Clerical Accts. (St. Ant. Hall Publ. xxvi), 58.
150. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v. 116.
152. B.I.H.R., Reg. 18, ff. 199-201.
153. Ibid. TER. H. Long Riston 1685 etc.; T.E.R.A.S. iv. 62.
155. Ibid. 1811/226/185; inf. from York Dioc. Bd. of Finance, 1981.
156. B.I.H.R., Reg. 18, ff. 199-201; ibid. TER. H. Long Riston 1781; Valor Eccl. v. 116.
157. R.D.B., BB/73/13; above, Rise, church.
159. R.D.B., 667/469/411; directories; Crockford.
160. Yorks. Mon. Suppression Papers (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xlviii), 156-7; above, Swine, S. Skirlaugh, church.
161. Herring's Visit. ii, p. 90.
162. B.I.H.R., V. 1865/Ret. 2, no. 427; V. 1884/Ret. 1; V. 1920-1/Ret.
163. Ibid. Prob. Reg. 3, f. 395.
164. Ibid. ER. V./CB. 1, f. 12.
165. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 486. For meeting to approve restn. (1853) and assessment prior to restn. (Mar. 1854), see E.R.A.O., PE/89/13. For illus. before restn., see Poulson, Holderness, i, facing p. 294.
166. Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 486.
167. B.I.H.R., TER. H. Long Riston 1764 etc.; Inventories of Ch. Goods, 56; Boulter, 'Ch. Bells' 85.
169. Ibid. ER. V./Ret. 1, f. 6; ibid. TER. H. Long Riston 1764; Inventories of Ch. Goods, 56; Yorks. Ch. Plate, i. 303.
171. Ibid. accession 1681; char. bd. in vestry, 1989.
172. Inf. from the vicar, 1990.
174. B.I.H.R., CD. Add. 1891/2; R.D.B., 29/58/50 (1889).
176. P.R.O., RG 31/5, no. 1762; B.I.H.R., Fac. Bk. 3, p. 324; C. E. Darwent, Story of Fish St. Ch., Hull (1899), 128-9.
177. R.D.B., FI/349/347; P.R.O., HO 129/522/2/13; stone on building.
179. E.R.A.O., MRH/1/2, esp. pp. 167, 169; MRH/1/17; MRH/1/21.
180. R.D.B., DQ/338/25; P.R.O., HO 129/522/2/12; stone on building.
181. O.N.S. (Birkdale), Worship Reg. no. 13144.
182. W. K. Jordan, Char. of Rural Eng. 1480-1660, 340 (the will cannot be traced at B.I.H.R.).
183. R.D.B., CD/51/63; Par. Doc. of Archd. of E.R. (Y.A.S. Rec. Ser. xcix), 118-19.
184. Educ. of Poor Digest, 1089.
185. Educ. Enq. Abstract, 1094.
186. O.S. Map 6", Yorks. CCXI (1855 edn.).
187. Returns relating to Elem. Educ., 472-3.
188. P.R.O., ED 7/135, no. 108; ED 49/8573; Rep. of Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1874-5 [C. 1265-1], p. 445, H.C. (1875), xxiv.
189. Bd. of Educ., List 21 (H.M.S.O., 1908 and later edns.).
190. E.R. Educ. Cttee. Mins. 1955-6, 151; 1963-4, 98; above, Hornsea, educ.
191. Humbs. C.C. Mins. 1978-9, F 928.
192. Inf. from Educ. Dept., Humbs. C.C., 1990.
193. Inf. from the vicar, 1990; inf. from Char. Com., Liverpool, 1990.
194. E.R.A.O., accession 1681; Bulmer, Dir. E. Yorks. (1892), 487; Review of Char. Rep. 108; inf. from the vicar, 1990.
195. Above, Swine, S. Skirlaugh, charity.

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