SEATON-WITH-WASSAND form together a township in the parish of and 1 mile north-east from Sigglesthorne and 2 ½ miles west from Hornsea. In 1886, and subsequently, 33 cottage gardens and 11 allotments were let to the parishioners, and are much appreciated. Hen is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1810 and enlarged in 1878, with 80 sittings, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1837 and seating 75. There is a charity of 8s. yearly, and in the township is a piece of land called “Whin Common,” of about 2 acres, left for the purpose of growing whins to serve for fuel for the poor of Seaton, and to be used solely for that purpose. Major Frederic Charles Strickland-Constable J.P. of Wassand Hall, is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. The soils are light and strong, with gravel in some parts; subsoil, mixed clay, gravel and sand. The chief crops are corn and turnips, and some land in pasture. The area is 1,741 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £2,495; the population of the whole township in 1911 was 346.