Halsham, East Riding

Description
Halsham, a village, a township, and a parish in the E. R, Yorkshire, 1 1/4 mile N of Ottringham station on the N.E.R., and 6 miles ESE of Hedon. Post town, Ottringham, under Hull; money order and telegraph office, Patrington. Acreage, 2910; population, 241. The manor belongs to the Hotham and Clarke families. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £492 with residence. The church is ancient but good, includes a chantry chapel, has a modern vestry and a tower, and contains sedilia, a pulpit of 1634, and an alabaster effigy of Sir John Constable, of the middle of the 15th century; the church was restored in 1871. A handsome mausoleum of the Constable family, with dome and surmounted by a cross, is near the church. There is an endowed school, and an hospital for eight poor men and two poor women.