Harpham

The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as belonging to King William the Conqueror, and having 29 ploughlands.{{cite web |title=Harpham {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TA0961/harpham/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=1 April 2022}} The name of the village is thought to derive from the Old English Hearpe-hām, meaning the Salt-Harp village or farmstead. Although not on the coast, the proximity of the Holderness coastline is thought to be the influence of the salt.{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-869103-3 |pages= 213, 221|edition=4}} Three Roman mosaics were found near Harpham in 1905, and three more were discovered in 1950. The first three are now in the Hull and East Riding Museum. They are simply patterned. One represented a rectangular maze, one of only five examples known in Roman mosaics in Britain.{{cite book|title=Roman Mosaics at Hull|last=Smith|first=David|date=2005|isbn=0904490-34-3|page=42}}

It is here that St John of Beverley was born in the 7th century;{{cite book |title= A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West |last=Walsh |first=Michael J. |year=2007 |publisher= Burns & Oats |location=London |isbn=978-0-86012-438-2 |page=316 }} he became the Bishop of Hexham as well as the Bishop of York.{{cite ODNB|first=D. M.|last=Palliser|title=John of Beverley [St John of Beverley]|id=14845|date=23 September 2004}}

The church is dedicated to him and was designated a Grade I listed building in 1966, and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.{{NHLE|num=1083345|desc=Church of Saint John of Beverley|accessdate=12 August 2013}} The Well of St. John, the local well, is named after him and is believed by many to have healing powers. The well is designated as a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE|num=1083346|desc= Saint John's Well|accessdate=21 October 2013|fewer-links=x}}

In 1823, Harpham was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering. The St. Quintin family were lords of Harpham.{{cite web |title=Papers of the St Quintin family of Harpham and Scampston - Hull History Centre Catalogue |url=http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/catalogue/U-DDSQ?tab=description |website=catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk |access-date=1 April 2022}} The foundations of the St. Quintin mansion were recorded as being to the west of the church. The church contains St. Quintin burials in the north aisle and a stained glass window to Sir William St Quintin, twenty-eighth in succession, who died in 1777.{{cite web |title=Genuki: Harpham, Yorkshire (East Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Harpham |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=1 April 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |last2=Neave |first2=David |title=Yorkshire; York and the East Riding |date=2002 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=London |isbn=0-300-09-593-7 |page=450}} Baines also notes the village as being wholly agricultural, with a population of 251. Occupations included eight farmers, two grocers, two shoemakers, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a tailor, a butcher, and the landlord of the St. Quintin Arms public house. There was also a linen manufacturer. A carrier operated between the village and Bridlington once a week.{{cite book|authorlink=Edward Baines (1774–1848)|last=Baines|first= Edward |year=1823 |chapter-url=http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/264356 |chapter=History|title= Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York|pages=212–213}} The nearest railway station was at {{rws|Burton Agnes}} on the Hull to Scarborough line, but this closed in January 1970.{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Neil |title=The lost railways of Yorkshire's East Riding |date=2011 |publisher=Stenlake |location=Catrine |isbn=9781840335521 |page=45}} Now, the nearest station is at {{rws|Driffield}}.{{cite news |last1=Somerville |first1=Christopher |title=20 Autumn walks; 17 Kilham to Harpham |work=The Times |issue=70080 |date=16 October 2010 |page=159|issn=0140-0460}}

The village gave its name to HMS Harpham, a Ham class minesweeper.{{cite book |editor1-last=Blackman |editor1-first=Raymond V. B. |title=Jane's fighting ships, 1960-61 |date=1960 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |page=47|oclc=32592771}}

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