Nunkeeling is a

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 ...

in 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. It is situated approximately north-west of the town of

Hornsea Hornsea is a seaside town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement dates to at least the early medieval period. The town was expanded in the Victorian era with the coming of the Hull ...

and south of

Beeford Beeford is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated at the junction of the A165 and the B1249, and approximately north-east from Beverley and south from Bridlington. According to the 2011 UK cens ...

. Nunkeeling forms part of 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 ...

Bewholme Bewholme is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the town of Hornsea. The civil parish is formed by the villages of Bewholme and Dunnington, ...

St Mary Magdalene and St Helena Church was built . In 1810 it was rebuilt, and is now in ruins. In 1972 ''Pevsner'' noted that the church was "full of trees".

Effigies An effigy is an often life-size sculptural representation of a specific person, or a prototypical figure. The term is mostly used for the makeshift dummies used for symbolic punishment in political protests and for the figures burned in certai ...

from the church were removed to

. In November 1985 the remains were designated as

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and is now recorded in the

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, maintained by

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History

Nunkeeling is noted in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

in 1086 as Keeling (spelled ''Chilinghr'') in

Holderness Wapentake Holderness was a wapentake of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest ...

. The listed lord of the manor,

Drogo de la Beuvrière Drogo de la Bouerer (also recorded as ''Drogo of la Beuvrière'', ''Drogo de la Bouerer''.) was a Flemish associate of William the Conqueror, who was rewarded after the conquest with a large grant of land in northern and eastern England, primarily ...

, fled England in 1087 following the death of his wife. So

William the Conqueror William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Norman ...

granted the manor to his sister Adelaide as part of the Lordship of Holderness, and her husband

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became Earl of Holderness by right of his wife. The ''-ing'' suffix was used in

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

to form derivatives of masculine nouns and indicates 'belonging to', so the land at some time in its Anglo-Saxon past likely belonged to descendants of a man who spoke

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

, whose name was Latinised as ''Chil'' and in

Anglicised Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influen ...

as Keel. The name of the hamlet changed from Keeling to Nunkeeling Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; year: 1452; National Archives; CP40/764; image seen at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H6/CP40no764/bCP40no764dorses/IMG_1832.htm; first entry, with Philip Wentworth as the plaintiff & Robert Ouste, chaplain, as a defendant due to the fame of

Nunkeeling Priory Nunkeeling Priory was a priory of Benedictine nuns in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England founded by Agnes de Arches or de Catfoss in 1152 . It was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene and to St. Helen. The priory became well known and nearby Keel ...

, built by Agnes de Arches during the reign of King Stephen for

Benedictine , image = Medalla San Benito.PNG , caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal , abbreviation = OSB , formation = , motto = (English: 'Pray and Work') , foun ...

nuns. Eventually the priory owned most of the surrounding land but declined into poverty. In 1823 Nunkeeling was a civil parish in the

Wapentake A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, C ...

and

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

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 ...

Lord of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...

in 1823 was Harrington Hudson of

Bessingby Bessingby is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies immediately south-east from the A614, approximately south-west from Bridlington. The village forms part of Bridlington civil parish. History Bessingby appears to be a s ...

. Population at the time, which included Bewholme, was 243, with occupations including four farmers. A private asylum existed in the village.

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