WITHERNSEA, a chapelry in the parish of HOLLYM,
southern division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS;
East riding of the county of YORK, 19 miles (E.
by S.) from Kingston upon Hull, containing 108 inhabitants.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is apparently
the remains of a magnificent building, probably
the church of a priory which existed here in the
reign of John, a cell to the abbey of Albemarle in France.