Balne, West Riding

Description
Balne, a township constituting with Pollington an ecclesiastical parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, 4 1/2 miles SW of Snaith. It has a station on the N.E.R. Snaith is the post town, and there is a telegraph office at Balne station. Acreage, 2839 ; population, 337; of the ecclesiastical parish, 724. The church, erected in 1854 by Viscount Downe, was restored and added to in 1887. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £186 with residence, in the gift of Viscount Downe. The church of St John's Pollington-cum-Balne was designed by Butterfield, and seats 300. A new lych gate was built in 1892 by the vicar.