Everingham, East Riding

Description
Everingham, a township and a parish in the E. R. Yorkshire, on a head stream of the river Foulness, 5 miles W by N of Market Weighton, with a station on the N.E.R., and a post and money order office under York; telegraph office, Holme. Acreage, 2981; population, 276. Everingham Park is the seat of Lord Herries, J.P., who is lord of the manor and owner of all the land except the glebe. The mansion is a spacious building erected about a century ago, and has a large Roman Catholic chapel in the Classic style, attached, containing a curiously carved font, supposed to be Saxon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £350 with residence. The church of St Everilda is an old building in the Norman style, partially restored in 1871. There is a Roman Catholic school, erected in 1871, supported by Lord Herries.