NAFFERTON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Hull and Scarborough railway, 2 miles E N E of Great Driffield; is a considerable place; and has a station on the railway and a post-office under Driffield. The township comprises 4, 330 acres. Pop., 1, 311 Houses, 292. The parish contains also the township of Wansford, and comprises 5, 130 acres. Real property, £7, 764. Pop., 1, 535. Houses, 340. The property is much subdivided. There are malting-houses, a largecorn mill, and small manufactures of linen cloth and cordage. A place called Danes-Graves is supposed to have been a Danish cemetery in the times of the Danishascendency. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient; was restored in 1846; has a memorial E window of 1854, and a pinnacled tower; and contains an ancient font, restored in 1846. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, an endowed national school, and charities £92.

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