Arnold, Yorkshire

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Arnold
Yorkshire
East Riding
Arnold Manor, Arnold.jpg
Arnold Manor, Arnold
Location
Grid reference: TA125415
Location: 53°51’30"N, 0°17’23"W
Data
Post town: Hull
Postcode: HU11
Dialling code: 01964
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Beverley and Holderness

Arnold is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the broad Holderness peninsula. It is to be found nine miles north of Kingston upon Hull city centre and six miles east of Beverley town centre. The A165 road by-passes the village to the east.

The name ‘Arnold’ derives from the Old English earn and halh, and meant ‘eagles’ nook of land.’[1]

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References

  1. Field, John (1980). Place-names of Great Britain and Ireland. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. p. 25. ISBN 0389201545. OCLC 6964610. 
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 3.