Bewholme is a village and

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 ...

in the

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, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the town of Hornsea. The civil parish is formed by the villages of Bewholme and Dunnington and the

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

Nunkeeling Nunkeeling is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the town of Hornsea and south of Beeford. Nunkeeling forms part of the civil parish of Bewholme. St Mary Magdalene and St Helena Chur ...

. According to the

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, Bewholme parish had a population of 232, a slight increase on the

2001 UK census A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...

figure of 230. The village has a church, St John Baptist, built in 1900 by S. Walker of Bridlington,

Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...

; ''The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding'' pp. 189, 190; Penguin (1972); reprinted 1975, Pevsner Architectural Guides. and football field. The former

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was designed by

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

, who also drew up an unexecuted design for the church. File:St John the Baptist, Bewholme.jpg, St John the Baptist church File:Bewholme House.jpg, Bewholme House

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* * Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire {{EastRiding-geo-stub