Description: The village of Hunmanby North Yorkshire
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Little is known about this period, Hunmanby being an earlier Saxon settlement with almost certainly a church. After the Norman "harrowing of the North' in 1080, Hunmanby Manor was given to Gilbert de Gant, a Norman overlord, of Bardney in Lincolnshire, for his assistance in the above campaign .A Norman 'motte and bailey' was built on what is today (2016) Castle Hill. An aisle-less church was erected which over the centuries was modified to its present design. The de Gant family remained in Hunmanby for many
Gent's 'History of York' 1730, mentions Hunmanby as 'one of the twelve market towns in the East Riding'. In 1629 the Osbaldeston family bought the Westroppe manor and during the next 200 years gradually obtained more and more land. This is indicated by them gaining the Lordships and Parishes of Filey, Muston, Reighton, Wold Newton, Fordon, Foxholes, Langtoft, North Burton and Thwing. Only the male side could inherit estates, and gradually the direct Osbaldeston line died out. Humphrey Brooke of Brayton, Sel
Humphrey Osbaldeston-Brooke was 24 and remained Lord of the Hunmanby (and associate) manors for 65 years, dying aged 90. In that period he formed the Hunmanby agricultural eastate of approximately 8,500 acres by the enclosure of 1809, making the present landscape of farms and roads. Hunmanby Hall, built in the late 1600's by his predecessors was altered by the addtion of the South and North wings, the Hall Park bounded by trees etc. He formed 'The Volunteers', an artillery force, during the Napoleonic wars