Burnby, East Riding

Description
Burnby, a village, a township, and a parish in E. R. Yorkshire, on an affluent of the river Derwent and on the York and Market-Weighton railway, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Pocklington. There is a station called Nunburnholme on the railway, and the post town is Hayton. Acreage of township, 1702; population, 115. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £286 with residence. Patron, Lord Londesborough. The church is ancient, in the Early English style, with some Norman remains.

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