Balkholme
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Balkholme is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kilpin and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 78.[1]
Balkholme is to the south of the B1230 Howden to Gilberdyke road as it crosses the M62 motorway, and Script error: No such module "convert". north-east of the parish village of Kilpin. The county town of Beverley is Script error: No such module "convert". to the north-east, the town of Howden Script error: No such module "convert". west, and the town centre of Goole approximately Script error: No such module "convert". south-west.
In 1823, Baines recorded that Balkholme was in the parish of Howden, and the wapentake and liberty of Howdenshire, and had a population of 105 including eight farmers.[2] Balkholme was formerly a township in the parish of Howden,[3] from 1866 Balkholme was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Kilpin and Eastrington, part also went to form Gilberdyke.[4]
At the east side of Balkholme is West Linton Farmhouse, a Grade II listed late 18th-century house, of two-storeys and three-bays. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with pantile roof, and has a 19th-century wing.[5]
There is a small RAF memorial garden on Brow Lane where a mid-air collision occurred during the Second World War between two Halifax Bombers of 578 Squadron.[6]
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