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HALSHAM, a parish in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire; 1hf. m. N of Ottringham r. station, and 5½ ESE of Hedon. Post town, Ottringham, under Hull. Acres, 2, 877. Real property, £3, 777. Pop., 265. Houses, 45. The property is divided between two. The manor belongs to Sir T. A.Constable. The surface is flat, and formerly was subject to flooding. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £760.* Patron, Capt. Shipton, R. N. The church is ancient but good; includes a chantry chapel; has a modern vestry and a tower; and contains sedilia, a pulpit of 1634, an octagonal granite font, and an alabaster effigies of Sir John Constable, of the middle of the 15th century. A handsome mausoleum of the Constable family, with dome and surmounting cross, is near the church. An endowed school and an hospital have £80.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Halsam AP/CP Patrington RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Halsam |
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