Brantingham

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude = 53.753653
longitude = -0.575488
official_name = Brantingham
population = 410 (2001 census)
civil_parish = Brantingham
unitary_england = East Riding of Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
lieutenancy_england = East Riding of Yorkshire
constituency_westminster = Haltemprice and Howden
post_town = BROUGH
postcode_district = HU15
postcode_area = HU
dial_code = 01482
os_grid_reference = SE940295

Brantingham is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated about convert|2|mi|km|lk=on north of Brough, and convert|12|mi|km|lk=off west of Kingston upon Hull. It lies to the north of the A63 road. According to the 2001 UK census, Brantingham parish had a population of 410.cite web
url = http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=790928&c=Brantingham&d=16&e=15&g=390655&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1210807851154&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779
title = 2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Brantingham CP (Parish)
accessdate = 2008-05-14
work = Neighbourhood Statistics
publisher = Office for National Statistics]

It has one pub, a post office, and a duckpond.

The pub, called "The Triton Inn", was formerly a coaching inn on the road west from Hull - Brantingham then being an important staging post on the road between Welton and South Cave. At that time the present "Triton Inn" was called "The Tiger" inn and had a wheelwrights and an agricultural engineer (a Mr Watson) in the yard at the front. The pub changed its name to become the "Wounded Tiger" in the 1850s, but then in the 1860s was renamed "The Triton", after part of the family crest of the Sykes family, who bought nearby Brantinghamthorpe Hall. They owned the pub as well as another "Triton Inn" on their Sledmere estate just north of Driffield (also in the East Riding of Yorkshire). The pub has been called "The Triton Inn" ever since.The original pub building still stands - a lovely old stone building, which now houses the bar and lounge as well as the manager's accommodation. To the side of the pub is a 1970s built extension containing a dining room plus a restaurant and kitchen complex. The pub is well-known for its fine dining as well as pub grub and has one of the largest car parks in the area. A popular location for wedding receptions and christening celebrations, it also has extensive gardens adjoining and children's playground so is a magnet for families, especially when the weather is fine. New owners in 2006 are Paul and Anne and their family.

The site of Brantingham Roman villa is found at the other end of the long lane leading south east from the village, known as Brantingham Outgang. This villa would have been closely associated with the Roman town at Petuaria Civitas Parisiorum (Brough-on-Humber) until it burnt down some time in the mid-4th century AD. In what is nowadays a flat, gated area located next to a large wood overlooking the main road running between South Cave and Elloughton, traces of the villa (in the form of mosaic floors and hypocaust heated rooms) were first discovered in late September 1941 (in what had been a working quarry since the Middle Ages and into the 1980s). As a result of the quarrying there is now no trace today, but an aerial survey made during the war confirmed the presence of Roman buildings associated with the villa on the other side of the modern road. This Roman site attracted later notoriety in 1948, when a team of archaeologists from the Hull & East Riding museum prepared the first of a group of mosaic pavements found at the villa site during the war, for removal. Overnight it was stolen and although the rest were safely recovered to the museum and are on display to this day, the missing first one has never been found. Neither has it ever been established exactly how it was stolen. This notorious art-theft was later taken by the historical novelist Clive Ashman as the basis for his novel “MOSAIC – the Pavement that Walked” (Voreda Books) which provides a fictionalised account of both the 1941 discoveries, police investigations into the 1948 theft, and the original fate of the Roman villa. Today, only a full-colour reconstruction scale drawing taken by the mosaic expert David Neal from black-and-white photographs of the time survives to show what the stolen mosaic would have originally looked like.

In the 1950s the village gave its name to HMS Brantingham, a Ham class minesweeper.

Brantingham is on the major 155 bus route between Hull and South Cave / Goole / Howden, and is the last village west within the Hull telephone area. The village has several beautiful old houses of note - Brantingham Hall and Brantingham House, for example, which overlook the duck pond in the centre of the village.

Because Brantingham is situated on the western flank of the southern end of the Yorkshire Wolds, its surrounding area has a somewhat different character depending whether you head east or west. Heading west is incredibly flat, as it heads across the Vale of York. If you head west you enter the hills of the Yorkshire Wolds. In this respect, Brantingham is possibly best known locally for Spout Hill, so named after the old water spout that is located at the bottom. The road from this spout leads steeply upwards, gaining convert|100|m|ft|lk=on or so in height. This affords some good views westerly across the Vale of York. The road then degrades to a bridleway leading to Riplingham, Elloughton and Welton. Two-thirds of the way up Spout Hill is another path that leads south, through the woods to Elloughton. The paths around and from Spout Hill are popular with walkers and runners. The climb of Spout Hill and its following bridleway is also popular with cyclists.

The Yorkshire Wolds Way long distance footpath passes through the village.
* [http://www.walkingenglishman.com/eastyorkshire02.html A descripton of a walk, starting and finishing from Spout Hill in Brantingham. From Walkingenglishman]

References

*“Brantingham Roman Villa: discoveries in 1962” - J. Liversedge; D.J. Smith and I.M. Stead. “Britannia - A Journal of Romano-British and kindred studies” Volume 4, 1973.

*“Roman Mosaics in Britain: An Introduction to their schemes and a catalogue of paintings” - D.S. Neal 1981.

*“Brading, Brantingham and York: a new look at some fourth-century mosaics” - R. Ling “Britannia - A Journal of Romano-British and kindred studies” Volume 22, 1991.

*“Roman Humberside” (2nd edn.) Humberside County Council Archaeology Unit: B. Sitch and A. Williams 1992.

*“Roman Mosaics of Britain: Volume I: Northern Britain incorporating the Midlands & East Anglia”: - D.S. Neal & S.R. Cosh ‘Society of Antiquaries of London’ 2002 Illuminata Publishers.

*“The Roman Mosaics at Hull” D.S. Smith (3rd edition) 2005, M. Foreman and D. Crowther Hull & East Riding Museums & Art Gallery.
*"Mosaic" (Voreda Books) Clive Ashman ISBN 9780955639807