Lund,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire

Lund, East Riding of Yorkshire

Lund, East Riding of Yorkshire

Village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

This article is about the village near Beverley. For the hamlet near Cliffe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974 and now in North Yorkshire, see Lund, North Yorkshire.

Lund is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Beverley and 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Driffield.

All Saints Church
The Wellington Inn

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According to the 2011 UK census, Lund parish had a population of 308,[1] an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 289.[2]

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building.[3]

In 1823 Lund was in the Wapentake of Harthill. In the market place the remains of a market cross was used as a focus to sell goods every Thursday in Lent. The parishioners had erected a public school for an unlimited number of children. Population at the time was 357. Occupations included fifteen farmers, one of whom was in occupation of the seat of a local notable family. There were three shoemakers, three shopkeepers, two tailors, a parish clerk and a parish constable, a schoolmaster, a workhouse governess, a blacksmith, a bricklayer, a saddler, a butcher, and the landlords of The Plough, and The Lord Wellington public house. Three carriers operated between the village and Beverley and Market Weighton twice weekly.[4]

John Fancy, the Second World War airman and escapee from German captivity was born in the village.[5]

In fiction

Location sequences for the village and church of "Hinton St. John" in the Robert Donat film Lease of Life (1954) were filmed in Lund, and nearby Beverley.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lund Parish (1170211220)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. [2]
    UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Lund Parish (00FB091)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. [3]
    Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1103410)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  4. [4]
    Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. p. 364.
  5. [5]
    "John Fancy". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 3 October 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  6. [6]
    "Yorkshire on Film – Lease of Life". Dalesman. Vol. 78, no. 1. April 2016. p. 28. ISSN 0011-5800.
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.
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