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"NUNKEELING, (with Bewholme) a parish in the N. division of the wapentake of Holderness, East Riding county York, 3 miles N.W. of Hornsea, and 11 N.E. of Beverley. Sigglesthorne is its post town. The village, which is small, is wholly agricultural. There was formerly a Benedictine nunnery, founded in 1150 by Agnes de Archis. Its revenue at the Dissolution amounted to £50 17s. 2d. The soil is fertile, and the land is nearly evenly divided between arable and pasture, with but little wood. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of York, value £55. The church is a small structure, containing effigies of a crusader. The charities are of a small amount. There is a school for both sexes."
"BEWHOLME, a township in the parish of Nunkeeling, wapentake of Holderness, in the East Riding of the county of York, 3 miles from Hornsea."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013