Barmby on the Marsh, East Riding

Description
Barmby-on-the-Marsh, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Howden parish, E. R. Yorkshire, at the confluence of the Derwent and the Ouse, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Wressel railway station and 4 W of Howden. The Hull and Barnsley Railway Company, whose line runs through the village, have a siding for the delivery and transit of goods. It has a post and money order office under Howden. Acreage, 1474; population of the township, 372 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 385. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York; gross value, £280 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and charities amounting to £150 per annum.