Carnaby, East Riding

Description
Carnaby, a township, a village, and a parish in E. R. Yorkshire, on the Hull and Scarborough branch of the N.E.R., 2 1/2 miles SW of Bridlington, with a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull; money order and telegraph office, Bridlington. Acreage, 1944; population of the civil parish, 200 ; of the ecclesiastical, 308. The living is a vicarage, united with Fraisthorpe and held with Boynton, in the diocese of York; value, £66. The church is an ancient building in the Perpendicular style, and has a good Later English tower. The nave of the church was restored in 1892-93. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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