Bishop Burton or Louth Burton, East Riding

Description
Bishop-Burton or Louth-Burton, a village, a township, and a parish in the E. R. Yorkshire, on the Wolds, 3 miles W of Beverley railway station, with a post, money order, and telegraph office of the name of Bishop-Burton (S.O.) Acreage, 4263; population, 466. A residence of the Archbishops of York was formerly here. Bishop-Burton Hall is the seat of the Watts. The living is a vicarage In the diocese of York; net value, £250. The church commands a fine view, and is good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £20, and almshouses with £162 per annum. In the village is a small mere, near which are several barrows.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5