Keyingham is a village and

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in the

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, England. The village is situated approximately east of

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city centre and lies on the

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History

A possible

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was north-east from the present village, identified by aerial photography, and at the north and south of the village is evidence of medieval

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, field boundaries, ponds, trackways, and ridges and furrows. Less than west of the village is the site of St Philips Well, a medieval

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. Keyingham is listed in the 1086 ''

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'' as in the

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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 ...

, with 31 households, 30 villagers, one priest and a church. Eight ploughlands and of meadow are recorded. In 1066 Thorfridh held the

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, this transferred by 1086 to Drogo of la BeuvriËre, who was also

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to King

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. In 1823 Keyingham (or Kyingham) was a civil parish in the

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and

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. The patronage of the

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and church was under the

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. In 1802 the interest from a bequest of 200

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was left for the education of poor parish children of 'Kayingham', administered by the

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s, and the

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who held his post as a

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. Parish population in 1823 was 639. Occupations included eight farmers, two

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s, two

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s, four grocers, a corn miller, six shoemakers, two tailors, one of whom was also a

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, a bricklayer who was also the parish clerk, a school master, the

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of The Blue Bell and the landlady of The Gate

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s. Two carriers operated between the village and Hull twice weekly. Keyingham was served from 1854 to 1964 by Keyingham railway station on the

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Community

According to the 2011 UK Census, Keyingham parish had a population of 2,314, an increase on the

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figure of 2,302. The

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of St Nicholas is a

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. Its spire was removed and

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s rebuilt in the late 1960s. Within St Nicholas' Church south chapel was a shrine to Philip Ingleberd (died ). The remains of the medieval ashlar St Philip's Cross, Grade II listed and dedicated to Ingleberd, stands on Church Lane. Further parish listed structures are a farmhouse, to the south at Little Dam Lane, The Old Vicarage on Station Road, and two windmill towers, one on Mill Road, the other on Ottringham Road. Keyingham amenities and businesses include a doctor's surgery, a Co-operative food store, a

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, a butchers,

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outlets, a funeral directors, hairdressers, and a village hall. The village public house is the Ship Inn on Main Street. A further public house and a former coaching inn on Main Street, the Blue Bell, closed in 2012 now re-opened. Two

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nurseries which cover an area almost equal to that of the village are at the east and west of the village. To the west are sand and

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s. Highland cattle are kept in a field just outside the village.

Education

The village has one

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, Keyingham Primary School. It was opened to pupils at the beginning of the 2007 school year, replacing the former infant school on the same site. The new school combines the former junior and infant schools, the junior school being based in a former

board school School boards were public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools. School boards were created in boroughs and parishes under the Elementary Education Act 1870 following campaigni ...

building across the road which closed in 2006. The schools serve children from Keyingham and the neighbouring village of Ottringham just over to the east.

References

External links

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