Brantingham

Brantingham is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) north of Brough, 12 miles (19 km) west of Hull and north of the A63 road. The 2011 UK Census gave the parish had a population of 370,[1] marking a decrease from the 2001 UK census figure of 410.[2] The 2019 estimate was 319.[3]

This article is about the village and civil parish in Yorkshire. For the eponymous noble family, see Brantingham (family).

Brantingham

Brantingham Pond
Brantingham
Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Population370 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSE940295
• London155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish
  • Brantingham
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBROUGH
Postcode districtHU15
Dialling code01482
PoliceHumberside
FireHumberside
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament

Heritage

The noble family of Brantingham (or de Brantingham), which included Ralph de Brantingham, King's Chamberlain to King Edward III, and Thomas de Brantingham, Lord Treasurer under the same king and later Bishop of Exeter, originally came from the village. In 1333, Lewis de Beaumont, a French-born Bishop of Durham described by a chronicler as "semi-literate, avaricious, and fitfully prodigal", died in the village. He had played some part in defending North-East England from Scottish incursions.[4]

The Church of All Saints was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1966 and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England.[5]

The village has a duck pond, and one pub, the Triton Inn, formerly a coaching inn on the road west out of Hull, which was then an important staging post on the road between Welton and South Cave. At the time the inn was called The Tiger and had a wheelwrights and an agricultural engineer (Mr Watson) in the yard at the front. The name became the Wounded Tiger in the 1850s, but took its present name in the 1860s after the triton in the family crest of the Sykes family, who bought nearby Brantingham Thorpe. They owned the pub and another Triton Inn on their Sledmere estate just north of Driffield.

The duck pond, Brantingham

In the 1950s the village gave its name to HMS Brantingham, a Ham class minesweeper.[6]

Roman remains
Main article: Brantingham Roman villa

The site of Brantingham Roman villa is found at the other end of the long lane leading south-east from the village, known as Brantingham Outgang. The villa would have been associated with the Roman town at Petuaria Civitas Parisiorum (Brough-on-Humber) until the latter burnt down some time in the mid-4th century. In what is nowadays a flat, gated area located next to a large wood overlooking the main road between South Cave and Elloughton, traces of the villa (in the form of mosaic floors and hypocaust-heated rooms) were first discovered in late September 1941 (in what had been a working quarry since the Middle Ages and into the 1980s). As a result of the quarrying there is now no trace today, but an aerial survey made during the war confirmed the presence of Roman buildings associated with the villa on the other side of the modern road.

This Roman site attracted later notoriety in 1948, when a team of archaeologists from the Hull and East Riding Museum prepared the first of a group of mosaic pavements found at the villa site during the war, for removal. Overnight it was stolen and although the rest were safely recovered to the museum and are on display to this day, the missing first one has never been found. Neither has it ever been established exactly how it was stolen. This art theft was later taken by the historical novelist Clive Ashman as the basis for his novel MOSAIC – the Pavement that Walked (Voreda Books) which provides a fictionalised account of both the 1941 discoveries, police investigations into the 1948 theft, and the original fate of the Roman villa. Today, only a full-colour scale drawing of the reconstruction, done by the mosaic expert David Neal from black-and-white photographs shows what the stolen mosaic would have looked like.[7]

Transport and sights

Brantingham is on the main 155 bus route between Hull and South Cave, Goole and Howden.

The village has significant historic houses, including Brantingham Hall and Brantingham House, which overlook the duck pond in the centre of the village.

Brantingham lies on the western flank of the southern end of the Yorkshire Wolds, its surrounding area having different characters to the east (flat Vale of York and to the west Yorkshire Wolds. A local landmark is Spout Hill, named after an old water spout located at the bottom. The road from there leads steeply up to a height of about 330 feet (101 m), offering a westerly view towards the Vale of York. The road then dwindles into a bridle path leading to Riplingham, Elloughton and Welton. Two-thirds of the way up Spout Hill is another path that leads south, through the woods to Elloughton.[8]

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long distance footpath, passes through the village.

Sport

The village is home to the rugby union side Hull Ionians, which currently plays in National League 1 – the third division of the English rugby union system. The club's home ground since 1995 is Brantingham Park.[9]

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Brantingham Parish (1170211150)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Brantingham Parish (1543504197)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  3. "Brantingham". City Population. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. Fraser, C. M. (2004). "Beaumont, Louis de (d. 1333)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  5. Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1103351)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  6. Blackman, Raymond, ed. (1961). "Minesweepers". Jane's fighting ships. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 64: 285. ISSN 0075-3025. OCLC 804621601.
  7. Smith, David (2005). Roman Mosaics at Hull. pp. 27 ff. ISBN 0904490 34 3.
  8. "293" (Map). Kingston upon Hull & Beverley. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244906.
  9. "Club History". Hull Ionians RUFC (Pitchero). Retrieved 3 January 2018.

Further reading

  • "Brantingham Roman Villa: discoveries in 1962", J. Liversedge, D. J. Smith and I. M. Stead. Britannia – A Journal of Romano-British and kindred studies, Vol. 4, 1973
  • Roman Mosaics in Britain: An Introduction to their schemes and a catalogue of paintings – D. S. Neal, 1981
  • Brading, Brantingham and York: a new look at some fourth-century mosaics – R. Ling. Britannia - A Journal of Romano-British and kindred studies, Vol. 22, 1991
  • Roman Humberside (2nd ed.) Humberside County Council Archaeology Unit: B. Sitch and A. Williams, 1992.
  • Roman Mosaics of Britain: Vol. I: Northern Britain incorporating the Midlands & East Anglia: – D. S. Neal and S. R. Cosh, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2002. Illuminata Publishers
  • The Roman Mosaics at Hull D. S. Smith (3rd edition) 2005, M. Foreman and D. Crowther, Hull & East Riding Museums and Art Gallery.
  • Ashman, Clive. Mosaic. Voreda Books. ISBN 978-0-9556398-0-7.
  • Gazetteer – A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 4.
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