WEEL is a small township and village, on the east bank of the navigable river Hull, and consists of a few farmhouses and several cottages, in the parish of St. John, Beverley, from which place it is 2 miles east by road and 1 mile east by the ferry. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1860. The tithe, amounting to £12, belongs to the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of Beverley. A. J. Wise esq. of Nafferton, is lord of the manor. The Corporation of Beverley and Arthur Bainton esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is sand, clay and moorland. The crops are wheat, oats, turnips and seeds. The area is 1,130 acres of land, 1 of water, 7 of tidal water and 2 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,339; the population in 1911 was 123.