KILPIN, or Kilpin Pike, on the river Ouse, the latter being the village in Kilpin township, 1 ½ miles south-east from Howden. The tithe, amounting to £131, is impropriated. There is a small Wesleyan chapel, built in 1867. Marmaduke Athorpe esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and potatoes. The area is 711 acres of land, 4 of water, 10 of tidal water and 1 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,106; the population in 1911 was 420.