Boynton, East Riding

Description
Boynton, a village a township, and a parish in E. R. Yorkshire, on the Gypsey stream, 3 miles WNW of Bridlington station on the N.E.R., with a post office under Bridlington-Quay, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 2617 ; population, 128. Boynton Hall is the seat of the Strickland family, and a pavilion above it commands most beautiful views. The living is a vicarage, held with Carnaby and Fraisthorpe, in the diocese of York ; net value, £199 with residence. The church has been rebuilt since the Reformation, but has an old tower.

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