KILNSEA, a parish in the southern division of the
wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county
of YORK, 8 miles (S. E. by E.) from Patrington, containing,
with Spurm, 196 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East
riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books
at £6. 8. 6., endowed with £600 royal bounty. L.
Thompson, Esq. was patron in 1813. The church, dedicated
to St. Helen, has been suffered to fall to ruin,
being situated so near the brink of the cliff, upon which
the sea is continually encroaching, that it must ultimately
have been swept away; a part of the cemetery
having already disappeared.