Balkholme is a

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in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Kilpin Kilpin is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of Howden and south-east from the county town of York. The civil parish is formed by the villages of Kilpin and Kilpin P ...

and the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England. Balkholme is to the south of the B1230 Howden to

Gilberdyke Gilberdyke is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of York and west of Hull. Gilberdyke lies near to Howden which is away. It lies on the B1230 road, south of the M62 ...

road as it crosses the M62 motorway, and north-east of the parish village of Kilpin. The

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Beverley Beverley is a market town, market and minster (church), minster town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre ...

is to the north-east, the town of Howden west, and the town centre of Goole approximately south-west. In 1823, ''

Baines Baines is a surname of English, Scottish or Welsh origin. It shares many of the same roots with the British surname Bains.Reaney, P.H. ''A Dictionary of British Surnames'' Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd edition (1976)Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Di ...

'' recorded that Balkholme was in the parish of Howden, and the

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and

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of Howdenshire, and had a population of 105 including eight farmers. At the east side of Balkholme is West Linton Farmhouse, a Grade II listed late 18th-century house, of two-storeys and three-

bays A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narr ...

. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with pantile roof, and has a 19th-century wing. There is a small RAF memorial garden on Brow Lane where a mid-air collision occurred during the Second World War between two Halifax Bombers of 578 Squadron.

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* Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Aviation accidents and incidents locations in England {{EastRiding-geo-stub