Halsham is a village and

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in the

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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 west of

Withernsea Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Its white inland lighthouse, rising around above Hull Road, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, wh ...

town centre and it lies south of the B1362 road. According to the

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, Halsham parish had a population of 255, a decrease on the

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figure of 260. The parish church of All Saints was designated a Grade I

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in 1966 and is now recorded in the

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, maintained by

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. To the east of the church is a Mausoleum of the Constable family which is designated as a Grade II* listed building. HMS ''Halsham'', a ''Ham'' class of inshore

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, was named after the village. In 1823 inhabitants in the village numbered 315. Occupations included sixteen farmers, three

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s, a bricklayer, a grocer, a

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, and the

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of the Sun

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. A carrier operated between the village and Hull on Tuesdays. The village was described as consisting of "chiefly a number of respectable farm houses, scattered at irregular distances from each other." The mausoleum to the Constable family is described as of stone, with polished white marble facing, with, at its centre, a monument to Sir William Constable (Historic England credits it to Sir Edward; '' Pevsner'' to Sir William), built at a cost of £10,000. Sir

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in 1584 left 80/- (

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) per year from his estate to be paid out in

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: 20/- for the education of eight poor children with a further 24/- for their

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s and books; 32/- for eight poor men; and 4/- for two poor women. He provided for a hospital for the use of the poor men and women of the parish.

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* * {{authority control Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Holderness Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire