BARMBY-on-the-MARSH, a chapelry in the parish
of HOWDEN, wapentake of HOWDENSHIRE, East riding
of the county of YORK, 4 miles (W.) from Howden,
containing 525 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, within the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of
Howdenshire, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of the Vicar of Howden. The chapel is
dedicated to St. Helen. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. Barmby is situated near the
junction of the rivers Ouse and Derwent: the manufacture
of sacking is carried on in the chapelry. A
school is endowed for the instruction of ten boys. Here
are two mineral springs, called St. Peter's "and St.
Helen's wells, one possessing a chalybeate, and the
other a sulphureous, impregnation.