Beeford, East Riding

Description
Beeford, a village, a township, and a parish in E. R. Yorkshire, 6 miles SSE of Lowthorpe station on the N.E.R., and 9 ESE of Great Driffield, with a post and money order office; telegraph office, Lowthorpe. Area, 3754 acres; population of the civil parish, 728; of the ecclesiastical, 931. the parish includes also the townships of Dunnington and Lissett. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Lissett, in the diocese of York; net value, £579 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is Perpendicular English, with a fine tower, and has a brass of 1472. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels.