LECKONFIELD, a village and a parish in Beverley district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1 mile W of Arram r. station, and 3¼ NNW of Beverley; and gives the title of Baron to the Wyndhams.—The parish contains also the hamlet of Arram. Post town, Beverley. Acres, 4, 030. Real property, £4, 631. Pop., 348. Houses, 56. The Property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. A seat of the Druids was here; gave rise to the name Leckonfield, which etymologically signifies "the cromlech in the gloom;" and was succeeded, first by a chapel for the early Christians, afterwards by a palace for the occasional use of the Archbishops of York. A stately castle of the Percys, Earls of Northumberland, also stood here; was taken down in 1600; and has left traces of its moat on the W of the village. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Scarborough, in the diocese of York. The church is a brick structure, and was recently in disrepair.

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