Eastrington, East Riding

Description
Eastrington, a village, a township, and a parish in E. R. Yorkshire, with stations on the Hull and Barnsley and N.E.R., and a post office under Brough, with telegraph office at the railway station ; money order office, Howden. Acreage, 2050 ; population, 436; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1677. The parish contains also the townships of Gilberdike, Bellasize, Portington and Cavil, Newport, Bishopsoil and Wallingfen; population, 1903. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient and contains some interesting monuments, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is a cemetery which was formed in 1875.