Barmston, East Riding

Description
Barmston, a village, a township, and a parish in the E. R. Yorkshire, on the coast, 5 miles SE of Burton-Agnes railway station, and 8 S by W of Bridlington. Post town, Lowthorpe, under Hull. Acreage, 2391; population, 213. The manor belongs to Sir H. S. Boynton, Bart., and the ancient mansion on it is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £900. The church is Perpendicular English, has a Norman porch-door, had once a chantry, and contains a circular font with cable moulding, and a monument to Sir Martin de la Mare (1494) and others to the Boyntons. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, and an hospital for four old labourers, founded in 1726 by Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart.