BURTON-PIDSEA, a parish partly in the liberty of
ST-PETER-of-YORK, and partly in the middle division
of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the
county of YORK, llf miles (E. by N.) from Kingston
upon Hull, containing 378 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, -within the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York, rated in
the king's books at £6, endowed with £200 royal
bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The church is
principally in the later style of English architecture.
There is a plade of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The village is situated on rising ground, whence there
is an extensive prospect of the surrounding co\intry.