Benningholme
| Benningholme | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Benningholme Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA118388 |
| Location: | 53°50’2"N, 0°18’5"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU11 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Benningholme is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Holderness. It is some six miles north of Kingston upon Hull city centre and one mile south-west of the village of Skirlaugh.
Benningholme is listed in the Domesday Book as "Benicol" and "Benincol". It was within the Holderness Middle Hundred of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The hall and manor comprised 29 villeins, 5 smallholders. 6 freemen and 4 men-at-arms, with 53 ploughlands, woodland, and 274 acres of meadow. At the Norman Conquest Ulf Fenman had been the lord: this had transferred by 1086 to Drogo de la Beuvriere, who also became Tenant-in-chief.[1]
Benningholme is the site of a deserted mediæval village, near Benningholme Grange (farm), and Benningholme Hall. In 1571 an enclosure was noted.[2] The deserted settlement is defined by now hardly discernible earthworks.
In 1899 Benningholme, as part of the township of Benningholme-with-Grange, was within the parish of Skirlaugh. Benningholme township land was owned by The Crown, which was also the lord of the manor. Chief crops grown in the parish were wheat, oats, turnips, beans and seeds, within an area of 1,470 acres. Benningholme's population in 1891 was 88. Post was directed through Hull, being collected from and distributed to Skirlaugh by foot messenger. Skirlaugh contained the nearest money order and telegraph office.[3]
A half-mile to the east of Benningholme is the Grade II listed Benningholme Hall, an 1820–30 late Georgian house. Built of grey gault brick, it is of a five-bay and two-storey construction with a hipped roof of Welsh slate. The central entrance is surrounded by a portico with an entablature supported by columns of Ionic order|ionic style. At the rear of the building is an iron veranda along its length, with a bow structure part enclosing a garden below. Attached to the original house is a 20th-century extension.[4][5]
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References
- ↑ Hall Benningholme in the Domesday Book}
- ↑ Beresford, Maurice; Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1955/58), p. 38
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Hull and its neighbourhood, 1899, Kelly's Directories Ltd, p. 605
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: York & East Riding, 1972; 1995 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09593-7page 343
- ↑ National Heritage List 1161929: Benningholme Hall
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 3.
