Garton, East Riding

Description
Garton, a village, a township, and a parish in E. R£ Yorkshire. The township includes the hamlet of Grimston Garth, and bears the name of Garton-with-Grimston. It lies on the coast, 8 miles NNE of Rye Hill station on the-N.E.R., and 12 ENE of Hull. Post town, Hull; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 1800; population of the civil parish, 130; of the ecclesiastical, 181. Grimston Hall, the seat of the lineal descendants of Sylvester de Grimston, standard-bearer to William the Conqueror, is a large castellated mansion occupying an elevated site near the shore, and commanding extensive and magnificent views. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York ; net yearly value, £85 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but good; it was repaired in 1877, and the interior was restored in 18 87£ There is a Wesleyan chapel.