Brandesburton
| Brandesburton | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St Mary’s Church, Brandesburton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA117474 |
| Location: | 53°54’40"N, 0°18’2"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,522 (2011) |
| Post town: | Driffield |
| Postcode: | YO25 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Yorkshire |
Brandesburton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, sitting seven miles west of Hornsea and nine miles north-east of its nearest market town, Beverley.
The wider civil parish includes, beyond Brandesburton, the hamlets of Burshill and Hempholme. The 2011 census recorded this parish as containing 1,522 people.
The village is situated off the A165: the main road ran through the village until the opening of a bypass skewing roiund Brandesburton and neighbouring village Leven, in 1994.[1]
Parish church
St Mary's Church, which is surrounded by its churchyard in the north-east corner of the village, is a large, mediæval building, with tower, nave, aisles and chancel. The church is a Grade I listed building.[2][3]
The church was largely built out of cobbles, but has an early brick clerestory and later south porch. Exhibiting some fragments of Norman work (including a priest's door), it principally dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and was restored in 1892.
Inside are two noteworthy brasses: on the south side of the chancel the fragments of a (rare) bracket-brass, and on the north side more substantial, full-size brasses to John St Quintin, a former Lord of the Manor, and his wife.
About the village
On the village green is a Grade II listed market cross.[4]
Brandesburton amenities include the Billabong jet ski centre which operates throughout the year, the Hainsworth Park Golf Club, The Burton Lodge Hotel, the Black Swan and Dacre Arms pubs, and The Dacre Lakeside camping and Caravan Park. Premier Modular, an off-site building company who specialise in modular buildings, are based in the village.[5]
A railway station was proposed in 1901 as part of the North Holderness Light Railway between Beverley and North Frodingham, but the line was never built.
Remains of mammoths and prehistoric elephant tusks have been discovered near the village.[6]
From the 1930s, and into the Second World War, RAF Catfoss was located just to the north-east of the village.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Brandesburton) |
- Brandesburton in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ A History of the County of York: East Riding - Volume 7 : Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions (Victoria County History)@[1]
- ↑ National Heritage List 1263780: Church of St Mary, Brandesburton (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: York & East Riding, 1972; 1995 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09593-7page 195
- ↑ National Heritage List 1249470: Market Cross (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "HS2 contracts for Premier Modular lead to 100 jobs". The Yorkshire Post (Business): p. 6. 22 July 2021. SSN 0963-1496.
- ↑ "BRANDESBURTON". http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Brandesburton/Brandesburton92.html. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 4.
