Hensall, West Riding

Description
Hensall, a township in Snaith parish, and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Rellington and Snaith parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the river Aire, and to a branch of the L. & Y.R., 3 miles WNW of Snaith, and has a station, with telegraph, on the railway, and a post office under Goole; money order office, Snaitb. Acreage, 1331; population, 305. The ecclesiastical parish includes Heck township, bears the name of Hensall-cum-Heck, and was constituted in 1855. Population, 557. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £115 with residence. Patron, Viscount Downe. The church was built in 1854, at the expense of the late Viscount Downe. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.