England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Burton Pidsea St Peter & St Paul

The Parish

The parish of Burton Pidsea lies in the extreme southeast of Yorkshire, within the East Riding and at the base of the Spurn peninsula. Burton Pidsea is located about 9 miles east of the port of Hull. Burton Pidsea is a small and compact village situated in lanes about 2 miles west of the B1242 road which forms the coastal road of this part of Holderness. Burton Pidsea is built in the shape of an "H" but one that is lying down, the longer arms formed by two east to west running lanes. At the time of this transcript Burton Pidsea would have been an arable agricultural village, little has changed over the years and the village is surrounded by vast fields of grain, oil seed and other arable crops. Burton Pidsea is drained by small streams with head southwestwards to meet the Humber Estuary through Hedon Haven. Burton Pidsea is sited at just 6 metres above the sea, the land about it being at that height or similar for many miles. Burton Pidsea parish was fairly typically sized for this area of Yorkshire, it covered just under 2,000 acres and would have supported a population of around 400 parishioners. In Domesday times Burton Pidsea was held by one Drogo of la Beuvriere, it was relatively small offering just 10 ploughs and a small meadow.

The Church

St Peter's church sits at the eastern end of the village accessed by Church Street or St Peter's Walk. The building uses the local beach cobbles extensively giving it an attractive finish. The church spans the Decorated into the Perpendicular periods of architecture. The build appears to have commenced at the eastern end, here the chancel, southern chapel and aisles show windows of the Decorated style. At the western end stands the tower which is later and thoroughly Perpendicular. This period covers the latter stages of the 13th and through into the 14th centuries. Later still the 18th century saw the addition of a brick porch and the restoration of the eastern end of the chancel, further modifications also date from the restoration of the 1860s. The church sits in an elevated position above Church Street behind a chest-height cobble stone wall, steps lead up to the churchyard. The western end of the church sits almost flush with that wall and road making adequate imagery of the tower difficult to achieve.