A VANISHING YORKSHIRE VILLAGE. 
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(i) The ancient stone cross already alluded to; (2) and (3) a couple 
of church bells—one at Easington and one at Aldboro’ near 
Hornsea. 
There are many strange tales of old Kilnsea, and it is a treat to 
talk to some of the older villagers at Easington who remember the 
outline of the coast there being very different to what it is to-day. 
Part of the church steeple fell (undermined by the sea) in 1828, 
but the surrounding graveyard seems to have been going for 
years before that. One old man, by name Medforth, found his 
father's coffin protruding from the cliff, and transferred the bones 
to a grannery in Easington, where he kept them for years. 
Eventually, Medforth’s sister having died, it was decided to bury 
her along with the parental bones, but the parson wanted double 
fees for a double burial, which was strongly objected to by the 
Medforth family, who urged that fees burial, had already been 
paid for their father. Whoever heard of two burial fees for one 
individual, they said ! Finally, the undertaker solved the difficulty 
by surreptitiously introducing the father's bones into the daughter's 
coffin. 
Mr. Philip Loten, father of a well known Easington Naturalist, 
was born at old Kilnsea, and actually remembered a road to the 
east or seaside of Kilnsea Church, and a few years later w T as 
present at a tragedy enacted in it. When the steeple had partly 
fallen, he, with another youth, had climbed to the top and were 
jumping across a huge rent in the tower roof, when his companion 
fell through to the bottom, and lay stunned and bleeding among 
stones and nettles below. (Plate II., Fig. b.) 
The last person to be buried in Kilnsea old churchyard was a 
negro who was the victim of a shipwreck. This was of a ship 
called the “Armenius,” and the wreck took place 86 years ago this 
February, 1909. The coast is a most treacherous one, specially 
in fog, and the present church-yard is filled with shipwrecked 
mariners. Nearly all the ablebodied men in Easington seem to 
belong either to the Lifeboat Crew or to the Rocket Brigade. 
The last person to be baptized in Kilnsea Church would seem 
to have been one by name John Ombler, and the date was 
somewhere about 1823. Fortunately several relics exist of this 
interesting edifice:— 
Portions cf Stone Pillars, Lintels, &c.—Many of these are pre¬ 
served in gardens, &c., both at Easington and Kilnsea. 
Two Sanctuary Chairs.—Crown and Anchor Inn, Kilnsea. 
