Kilpin

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Kilpin
Yorkshire
East Riding
Kilpin, East Riding of Yorkshire (cropped).jpg
Entering Kilpin
Location
Grid reference: SE772269
Location: 53°43’59"N, 0°49’49"W
Data
Population: 339  (2011)
Post town: Goole
Postcode: DN14
Dialling code: 01430
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Haltemprice and Howden

Kilpin is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshirea mile and a half south-east of Howden and eighteen miles south-east from the county town, York.

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Kilpin and Kilpin Pike and the hamlets of Balkholme, Belby, Howdendyke and Skelton. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 339.

In 1823 Kilpin was recorded as being in the parish of Howden and the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire. Population at the time was 318, and included four farmers and a yeoman.[1]

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References

  1. Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); page 360
  • Gazetteer – A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 7.