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Goxhill, East Riding of Yorkshire

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OS grid reference
  
TA184448

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
HU11

Dialling code
  
01964

UK parliament constituency
  
Beverley and Holderness

Country
  
England

Post town
  
HULL

Local time
  
Friday 6:52 PM

Ceremonial county
  
East Riding of Yorkshire

Unitary authority
  
East Riding of Yorkshire

Goxhill, East Riding of Yorkshire

Region
  
Yorkshire and the Humber

Weather
  
8°C, Wind SW at 32 km/h, 87% Humidity

Civil parish
  
Hatfield, East Riding of Yorkshire

Goxhill is a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Hornsea town centre.

Map of Goxhill, Hull, UK

The village was a civil parish until 1935, when it was merged with Great Hatfield and Little Hatfield to form the parish of Hatfield.

The parish church of St Giles is a Grade II listed building.

In 1823 Goxhill parish was in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. At the time the parish church was undergoing repairs, begun in 1818. Population was 70, which included five farmers. In 1840 population was 65, again with five farmers, the parish land of 880 acres (3.6 km2) the property of Rev Charles Constable, who had been patron of the St Giles Church incumbent since 1823.

Goxhill was served from 1865 to 1953 by Wassand railway station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway.

References

Goxhill, East Riding of Yorkshire Wikipedia