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The Steam Packets pass here daily to Hull and Gainsboro; and there are in the village two large manufactories of sacking, sailcloth, &c., and a whiting mill. A hiring for servants is held Nov. 24th, and a feast on the Sunday after August 21st. The Church (St. Martin) is a vicarage, valued in K.B. at £19.10s., and now at £155. The Rev. Wm. B. Stonehouse, M.A., is the incumbent, and the Archbishop of York is patron and appropriator; but the rectorial tithes are held on lease by Wm. Graburn, Rev. G. H. Woodhouse, Mr. R. A. Read, Mr. A. Barratt and Mr. T. Standering, and have recently been commuted for yearly rent charges, except Mr. Graburns share, which, at the enclosure in 1797, was commuted for 241a. 3r.30p. of land. here is a Wesleyan and also a Primitive Methodist Chapel. A Diocesean School; was erected in the village in 1841, for the reception of 50 children of both sexes. It owes its origin to the munificence of the vicar and other subscribers. the master has a yearly rent charge of £5., left by Joseph Noddel, for which 12 poor children are educated. the Church land, 6a., is let for £9 per annum. The poor of Owston have £10, and those of Butterwick £5 yearly, as the rent of the Poors land allotted at the enclosure of the parish. The former have also the following yearly doles:-viz., 40s. left by John Pindar, in 1671, out of land belonging to Lord Beauchamp; and £1.18s. from 1a.1r.10p., left by Edw. Otter, in 1710.
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