Burton Agnes, East Riding

Description
Burton-Agnes, a village, a township, and a parish in E.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Hull and Scarborough railway, 5 1/2 miles SW of Bridlington, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull; money order and telegraph office, Lowthorpe. Acreage, 2554; population, 321; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Harpham, 833. The parish contains also the townships of Haisthorpe, Thorn-Holme, and Gransmoor. Burton-Agnes Hall is the seat of the Boynton family, was built by Inigo Jones, and stands on a fine slope of the Wolds, forming a striking object from the railway. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Harpham, in the diocese of York; net value, £778 with residence. The church has a nave of three bays and a good western tower, contains an Anglo-Norman font, an altar-tomb of 1336, and a tomb with effigy of 1481. The chancel was restored by Archdeacon Robert Wilberforce. There is a Wesleyan chapel, a reading-room with library, opened in 1886, an endowed school, and almshouses for four poor widows.