Hempholme is a
hamlet
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in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England, in an area known as
Holderness
Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common wit ...
. It is situated approximately north-east of
Beverley
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town centre, and east of the
Driffield Navigation
The Driffield Navigation is an waterway, through the heart of the Holderness Plain to the market town of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The northern section of it is a canal, and the southern section is part of the River Hull. C ...
.
History
In 1823 Hempholme was in the civil parish of
Leven Leven may refer to:
People
* Leven (name), list of people with the name
Nobility
* Earl of Leven a title in the Peerage of Scotland
Placenames
* Leven, Fife
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, and the
Wapentake
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and
Liberty
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In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
of
Holderness
Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common wit ...
. Population at the time was 93. Occupations at the time included six farmers, some of whom were
yeomen
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, and a schoolmaster.
[ Baines, Edward (1823): ''History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York'', p. 217]
Governance
Hempholme forms part of the
civil parish
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of
Brandesburton
Brandesburton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Hornsea and north-east of the market town of Beverley.
The civil parish is formed by the vil ...
.
The civil parish was in the
Beverley and Holderness
Beverley and Holderness is a county constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years by the first-past-the-post ...
parliamentary constituency until the
2010 general election when it was transferred to the constituency of
East 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 th ...
.
References
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Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Holderness
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