Wansford, Yorkshire

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Wansford
Yorkshire
East Riding
Chapel Lane, Wansford - geograph.org.uk - 2140139.jpg
Chapel Lane, Wansford
Location
Grid reference: TA062564
Location: 53°59’35"N, 0°22’53"W
Data
Post town: Driffield
Postcode: YO25
Dialling code: 01377
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Yorkshire

Wansford is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, sitting beside the B1249 road and just to the north of the River Hull and the Driffield Canal. It is two and a half miles south-east of Driffield and three miles north-west of North Frodingham.

A lock gate on the Driffield Canal at Wansford

The church of St Mary the Virgin, Wansford was built in 1866–68 to designs by G.E. Street. It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Churches Group.[1] The church is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

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References

  1. "Sykes Churches Trail Southern Route". East Yorkshire Historic Churches Group. 
  2. National Heritage List 1162211: Church of St Mary the Virgin (Grade II* listing)
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 11.