HOLLYM, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of Withernsea, and the township of Hollym, and containing 368 inhabitants, of which number, 260 are in the township of Hollym, 3 miles (N. E.) from Patrington. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £9. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the Mayor and Corporation of Beverley. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was built in 1814, by the Rev. Charles Barker, then vicar. George Cook, in 1813, bequeathed £300 towards the support of a school, the interest of which is applied to the instruction of eleven poor children.