Burnby
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Burnby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hayton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Pocklington and north-west of the market town of Market Weighton. It lies to the east of the A1079 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 103. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Hayton.
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- civil parish
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- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Hayton
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- St Giles Church, Burnby.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01759
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- Burnby
- OS grid reference
- SE836464
- historic county
- Yorkshire
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Burnby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hayton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Pocklington and north-west of the market town of Market Weighton. It lies to the east of the A1079 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 103. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Hayton.
The name Burnby derives from the Old Norse brunnrbȳ meaning 'settlement by the spring'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burnby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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