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Wapentake of Holderness (Middle Division) - Petty Sessional Division of Middle Holderness - County Court District of Hull - Poor Law Union of Sculcoates - Rural Deanery of Kingston-upon-Hull - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.
Marfleet is a parish and township lying on the east side of Hull, and is now included within the municipal boundaries of that borough, under the Hull Extension and Improvement Act of 1882. Its total area is 2,138 acres, rateable value £2,650, and the population in 1891 was 235. The surface is flat, the soil and subsoil clay, and the chief crops are wheat, oats, and beans, but a considerable portion of the parish is laid down in pasture. Sir Frederick Augustus Talbot Clifford-Constable, Bart., is lord of the manor; and the master and fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge; W. H. Harrison-Broadley, Esq., Welton, Brough; and Trinity House, Hull, are the principal landowners.
Meresflet is returned in Domesday Book as a soke to Mappleton. It afterwards became a distinct manor, held by a family styled De Merfiete. It subsequently passed into the family of Roos. In 1531 the manor and 425 acres of land were purchased by St. John's College.
The church, dedicated to St. Giles, was rebuilt of stone in 1884, at a cost of about £1,500; of this sum £1,000 was left for the purpose by Mrs. Francis Fletcher, née Barmby; £300 was given by St. John's College; and the remainder was raised by subscription. It consists of chancel, nave, west porch, and belfry containing one bell. There are tablets on the walls to the memory of the Barmby, Boulby, Chaffer, and other families. The brick edifice, which was taken down in 1884, was built on the site of the ancient church in 1793. This early structure was dedicated to St. Egidius, and was a chapel to the parish church of Paull. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £55 including 23 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Simeon trustees, and held by the Rev. Edward Birt Kay, B.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, who resides at Hedon.
There is a Wesleyan Chapel on the Hedon Road, built in 1872. Crosby Hall, in the village, used for public meetings, entertainments, &c., was erected by Miss Crosby in 1889.
The poor have two annuities amounting to 20/- out of land here, and also the interest of £100, bequeathed by Miss Mary Barmby, which is distributed in coals by the vicar.
[Description(s) from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)]
Scan, OCR and html by Colin Hinson. Checking and correction by Peter Nelson.