WINESTEAD, a parish in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Hulland Holderness railway, 1½ mile WNW of Patrington. It has a post-office under Hull, and a r. station. Acres, 2,570. Real property, £2,878. Pop., 173. Houses, 27. The manor, with W. Hall, belongs to T. B. Hildyard, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £247.* Patron, Mrs. Hildyard. The church is ancient. Andrew Marvel, of the time of Charles I., was a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))