HARPHAM, a parish in the wapentake of DICKERING,
East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles (N.E.
by E.) from Great Driffield, containing 251 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage
of Burton-Agnes, in the archdeaconry of the East riding,
and diocese of York. The church is the burial-place of
the family of St. Quintin, whose founder came over with
the Conqueror; their pedigree, from 1080 to 1777, shewing
an uninterrupted succession of twenty-eight generations
in the male line, is beautifully represented in
stained glass in the windows: on the western side of
the church-yard are vestiges of the ancient family
mansion and fish-ponds. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists.