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Grindale Parish Council is a democratically elected body with a mandate to speak on behalf of all the people living within the parish boundary of Grindale. The function of the Council is to act as a focus for local opinion and to liaise with other bodies and authorities in a constructive way to achieve the desired outcomes where possible.
Grindale In the Past
Grindale is a picturesque, rural agricultural village with Medieval Origins.
The layout of the village has remained largely the same since the 1850s, with houses and farms arranged round a near oval shaped road layout with a Mere in the Centre. The farms that are present in the village are from the larger scale of farming seen around the late 18th to 19th centuries.
Grindale was also a settlement found in the Domesday Book, in the hundred of Hunthow and the county of Yorkshire.
It had a recorded population of 0.5 households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday, and is listed under 2 owners in Domesday Book.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grindale like this:
GRINDALL, a chapelry in Bridlington parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles SW by S of Speeton r. station, and 4 NW of Bridlington. It has a post office under Hull. Acres, 2, 415. Real property, £2, 739. Pop., 174. house, 24. The manor belongs to T. Lloyd, Esq. Fragments of Roman tesselated pavement were finnd in 1839. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Sewerby-with-Marton, in the diocese of York. The church was built in 1834.
St Nicholas Church
A large country church looking out across farm fields, St Nicholas is almost entirely a product of the Victorian period been rebuilt 1873-4, replacing a brick church of 1830.
One of the sole concessions to earlier history is a much restored Norman tub font, with a larger early font bowl on the floor beside it. The carved bowl supposedly came from the vanished church at Argham.
The pulpit is lovely Victorian work, as is the stone reredos behind the altar. One interesting feature is that the church is oriented the 'wrong way', that is, with the altar towards the west rather than the traditional east.
The first historical record of a church at Grindale comes from the year 1153 when a curate named Serls resigned his Prebendary post for unknown reasons.
The king and the archbishop had land at the time of the Domesday Survey, the archbishop’s land was waste. The king’s land was passed to Gant.
The church seems to have been associated with Bridlington Priory from at least 1115, but had some degree of independence, having its own patron etc, but perhaps a priest from the priory
Most of the early curates of St Nicholas's were supplied by the nearby Priory.
The medieval church was almost completely rebuilt in 1874 under the patronage of the Lloyd Greames family of Sewerby.