Horkstow, Lincolnshire

Description
Horkstow, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the New Anchoime river, 4 miles SW from Barton-upon-Humber ration on the M.S. & L.R. It has a post office under Hull; money order office, South Ferriby; telegraph office, Barton-upon-Humber. Acreage, 2138; population, 243. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. Horkstow Hall, built on the site of the Diamond Dale Priory, is now a farm-house. Roman coins, and fragments of three tesselated pavements were found near the Hall in 1796. A suspension bridge is here over the Anchoime river, connecting the village with West Halton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £170. Patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone, partly in the Early English style, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.