CONISTON is a township and small village, 6 miles north-east from Hull and 1 ½ east-south-east from Swine. This place is called Coiningesbis in Domesday. The tithes were commuted in 1780. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1872, and seating 200 persons. Major Walter George Raleigh-Chichester-Constable, of Burton Constable Hall, is lord of the manor. William Basil Wilberforce esq. of Markington Hall, is chief landowner. The soil is light gravel; subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat, oats, barley and seeds. The acreage is 602; rateable value, £780; the population in 1911 was 106.