Lund, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Lund is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately Script error: No such module "convert". north-west of Beverley and Script error: No such module "convert". south-west of Driffield.
According to the 2011 UK census, Lund parish had a population of 308,[1] an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 289.[2]
The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building.[3]
In 1823 Lund was in the Wapentake of Harthill. In the market place the remains of a market cross was used as a focus to sell goods every Thursday in Lent. The parishioners had erected a public school for an unlimited number of children. Population at the time was 357. Occupations included fifteen farmers, one of whom was in occupation of the seat of a local notable family. There were three shoemakers, three shopkeepers, two tailors, a parish clerk and a parish constable, a schoolmaster, a workhouse governess, a blacksmith, a bricklayer, a saddler, a butcher, and the landlords of The Plough, and The Lord Wellington public house. Three carriers operated between the village and Beverley and Market Weighton twice weekly.[4]
John Fancy, the Second World War airman and escapee from German captivity was born in the village.[5]
In fiction
Location sequences for the village and church of "Hinton St. John" in the Robert Donat film Lease of Life (1954) were filmed in Lund, and nearby Beverley.[6]
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