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Garton
Old Mill at Garton
GartonLocation within the East Riding of Yorkshire
OS grid reference	TA 264 354
• London	155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish	East Garton
Unitary authority	East Riding of Yorkshire
Ceremonial county	East Riding of Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HULL
Postcode district	HU11
Dialling code	01964
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Beverley and Holderness
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°48′00″N 0°04′53″W / 53.799898°N 0.081323°W / 53.799898; -0.081323

Garton (or Garton in Holderness) is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Withernsea town centre. It lies on the B1242 road.

It forms part of the civil parish of East Garton.

History

The church dedicated to St Michael was designated a Grade I listed building in 1966 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.

Blue Hall farm to the west of the village was designated in 1966 as a Grade II* listed building.

In 1823 inhabitants in the village numbered 160. Occupations included ten farmers, a bricklayer, a carpenter and a blacksmith. Two carriers operated between the village and Hull on Tuesdays.

During the Second World War, a German, moored, magnetic influence mine, TMA-1 came ashore at Corton sands at Garton. Lcdr. Roy Berryman Edwards, RN, DSO, BEM took the assignment to dismantle the mine with U.S. Navy Mine Disposalman John Martin Howard observing the operation. The mine detonated during the disposal operation with the full four hundred and seventy pounds of charge. The detonation killed Howard and Edwards and scattered debris for two hundred yards in each direction along the beach.

References

1. Historic England. "Church of St Michael (1215863)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
2. Historic England. "Blue Hall (1346612)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
3. Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York. p. 209. ISBN 1230139141.
4. Bartleson, John D. Jr. (1995). "History of U.S. Navy Mine Disposal". Washington, DC: United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Association. pp. 46–49. LCCN 96170065.

• Gazetteer – A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 6.

External links

• Media related to Garton at Wikimedia Commons
• Garton in the Domesday Book

• Yorkshire
• England
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Statutory City Region	Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority
Unitary authorities	East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Beverley Bridlington Brough Cottingham Driffield Goole Hedon Hessle Hornsea Howden Kingston upon Hull Market Weighton Pocklington Snaith Withernsea See also: List of civil parishes in East Riding of Yorkshire
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