BROOMFLEET AND PARISHES. 561 BROOMFLEET TOWNSHIP. Letters via Brough. Nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office, Newport (three miles). Wall Box cleared at 4: p.m. No Sunday collection.

Baitson Henry, grocer Farmers. Dennis Thomas, cowkeeper, lock Andrew John J oseph Purdon, Laxton grange Dudding Ohas., steam thrashing-macho propr. Barker William, Walling fen Dudding John Bateson John Glegge Rev. William, RA., vicar Emmanuel George Leafe Benjamin, lock keeper and inspector of Kitching Thomas can~l boats, Humber lock, via Newport, Leaper John Brough Patchitt George Mainprize Mrs. Ann Purdon J oseph Nicholls Richard, master, Board school Reed William (and Sheffield) Nottingham Mrs. MaryAnn, vict., Red Lion Inn Rudd John, North Field house Reed Mr. George Scutt John Sawden Mrs. Lydia, shopkeeper Scutt J.onathan ScJwol Board; Robert Bruce, clerk, South Tindle George Oave, Brough Tindle Robert, Broomfleet house Wilson Frank, cowkeeper Tindle William Underwood Tom George, Thorpe grange. FAXFLEET TOWNSHIP. Marked thus * receive their letters via Brough, Yorks., and thus t via . Farmers. tFordham Henry, fisherman, Humber lock tOawood John *Kitching Asa, manager (Hy.Williamson& 00.), *Coultons John (owner), Oxmerdyke brickyard, Broomfleet landing *Haigh John, Oxmerdyke *Leaf Benjamin, lock keeper and inspector of t Hutchinson George canal boats, Humber lock *Johnson George, Oxmerdyke and Newbald tSpencer John, cowkeeper *Leaper William. Oxmerdyke marr *Williamson Henry & 00., brick and tile manu­ tOliver Edward & Son, Faxfleet grange facturers, Broomfleet landing j Asa Kitching, *Oliver Thomas Blossom, North hall, Brough manager tReed John tShaw John, Faxfleet hall *Underwood John, Marr house

BUBWITH PARISH. Wapentake of Harthill (Holme Beacon Division)-County Council Electoral Division of Bubwith -Petty Sessional Division of Howdenshire-Poor Law Union and County Court District of Howden-Rural Deanery of Weighton-Archdeaconry of the East Riding-Diocese of York. Bubwith is a parish of considerable extent, lying on the east bank of the Derwent. It includes the towllships of Bubwith, Breighton-cum-Gunby, Fogga­ thorpe, Gribthorpe, Harlthorpe, , and . The surface is generally level, fairly well wooded, and well cultivated. In the township of Bub­ with there are 1,467 acres of land subject to assessment, the rateable value is £2,640, and the population in 1891 was 566, showing an increase of 52 since the last decennial enumeration. Henry Stourton, Esq., of Holme-on-Spalding 1\ioor, is lord of the manor, and the following are the principal landowners: J. J. Dunnington-Jefferson, Esq., Thickett Priory: Robert Chaplin, Esq., Menthorpe; E. C. Weddell, Esq.; Exors. of T. Weddell, Esq.; Thomas Sinclair Clarke, Esq., M.A., J.P., Knedlington Manor; the Dean and Chapter of York; Thos. Hepton, Liverpool; and George Newstead, of Eccles Hill, near Bradford. The soil is partly sand and partly clay, and the subsoil clay; the chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes. The low lying lands near the river, called the Ings, yield very fine crops of hay, but in consequence of the narrowness of the channel of the river in its lower reaches, they are frequently flooded when the river is swollen by sudden freshes from the hills. When these freshes occur very considerable damage is often the result, whole fields of hay being sometimes swept away. The village stands on the bank of the Derwent, which is here crossed by a bridge, erected in 1793, at a cost of about £2,000. It is about 88 yards in length,

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