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30 unusual facts about East Riding of Yorkshire


Barmston and Fraisthorpe

The civil parish is almost completely low lying agricultural land with several farmsteads; excluding the Holderness coast and the two villages of Barmston and Fraisthorpe.

Beverley Folk Festival

The Beverley Folk Festival is a three day celebration of music, workshops, comedy and spoken word that is held in and around Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Buttercrambe with Bossall

The parish is near Stamford Bridge, and contains Buttercrambe and Bossall.

Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations

The Kingston Upon Hull Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations (CMRI), which opened in 1992, is a magnetic resonance imaging centre located in the city of Kingston upon Hull (Hull) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK.

Dick Turpin

The indictments stated that the alleged offences had occurred at Welton on 1 March 1739, and described Turpin as "John Palmer alias Pawmer alias Richard Turpin ... late of the castle of York in the County of York labourer".

Dobbelaer

An example of his work depicting Joseph being reunited with his brothers can be seen at St Mary's church Cottingham, chancel south side second window.

Edward Routh

His father's family could trace its history back to the Norman conquest when it acquired land at Routh near Beverley, Yorkshire.

Elizabeth de Burgh

He imprisoned Bruce's sister Mary and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, in wooden cages erected on the walls of Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively, and then sent Bruce's nine-year-old daughter Marjorie to the nunnery at Watton.

Elizabeth Howe

Elizabeth Jackson Howe was born circa 1635 near Rowley, Yorkshire, the daughter of William and Joane Jackson.

Glass Shadows

The album was recorded at Fairview Studios, in Willerby, Hull, where the band worked with old friend John Spence, engineer of many early Mostly Autumn records.

Handley Page HP.88

The completed HP.88 was taken by road to Carnaby near Bridlington, where it was flown for the first time on 21 June 1951.

Hull and Selby Railway

In 1848 a branch line from the Hull & Selby Railway was built from Barlby just to the east of Selby to Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

James Octavius Machell

James Machell was born at Etton Rectory near Beverley on 5 December 1837, the youngest child of the Reverend Robert and Eliza Machell.

John Fryer Thomas Keane

Upon his return he was given into the hands of a private tutor, an elderly parson in a remote part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Kelk

Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Ken Wagstaff

In November 2002, Wagstaff celebrated his 60th birthday at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby with 350 friends, including players from the Hull City 1965–66 Third Division championship team.

Lake Pickering

The lake surface rose until it overflowed southwards and cut an exit between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds at Kirkham Priory between Malton and Stamford Bridge, so creating the River Derwent.

Lease of Life

Exterior sequences for Lease of Life were filmed in Beverley (Gilchester) and the nearby village of Lund (Hinton St. John) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Norman Collier

Collier lived in Welton, a village west of Hull, and was married with three children, several grandchildren, and a growing number of great-grandchildren.

Nyhamna

At this facility, the gas enters a processing facility that is connected to the northern end of the Langeled pipeline which transports the gas under the sea to Easington, England.

Ralph Burton

A memorial to Ralph Burton is in St. Mary's church, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire

Rowley, Massachusetts

The town was named after Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to non-conformist Puritan beliefs.

Satra

Cossack was also the brand name applied to all Soviet motorcycles distributed by Satra (originally located in Surrey, later moving to Carnaby) from 1973 to 1979, and used by the Australian importer, Capitol Motors until May 1976 when their motorcycle division shut down.

Temple Lushington Moore

He was educated at Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by Revd Richard Wilton in Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Willerby

Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish located on the western outskirts of the city of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire

William Harrison-Broadley

In 1865 he assumed by royal license the additional surname of Broadley on inheriting Welton House from the Broadley family.

William of Pagula

Pagula was probably born near Paull in Yorkshire, and after being confirmed as the parish priest of Winkfield on 5 March 1314 he was ordained on 1 June by Walter Reynolds at Canterbury Cathedral.

Yorkshire Museum of Farming

It was originally designed to house a growing collection of farm machinery that had been donated by various farms from North and East Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire Farm Machinery Preservation Society and stored at Burton Constable.

Zachariah Pearson

Zachariah Pearson (died 1891) was an English shipowner, best known for the gift of land to Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, which was used to establish the City's first public park, later known as Pearson Park.

Zoo Vet at Large

His veterinary home is currently in the village of Stamford Bridge but was formally in the town of Pocklington.


Borough of Scarborough

It was a merger of the urban district of Filey and part of the Bridlington Rural District, from the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the municipal borough of Scarborough, Scalby and Whitby urban districts, and Scarborough Rural District and Whitby Rural District, from the historic North Riding.

Burton Constable railway station

Burton Constable railway station was a station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway, and served the villages of Marton and Burton Constable in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Elleker, Western Australia

In 1921, it was renamed Elleker on the recommendation of a former member of the Albany Road Board who lived in the area, after Ellerker in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Ernest Meysey-Thompson

At the 1900 general election, he contested the Buckrose division of the East Riding, where he lost by 91 votes (1.2%) to the Liberal candidate Luke White.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Hull and East Riding Hospital

The hospital offers private care to patients from a wide geographic area covering East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.

John Hymers

In 1852 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Brandesburton in Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where he spent the last thirty-five years of his life.

Jon Sen

After training at ARTTS International in Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, he became an accomplished documentary editor between 1996 and 2000, editing landmark British documentary series including Secret History, Witness and The Real...

Kirkella, Manitoba

Kirkella was the name of the farm of local pioneer Thomas Watson, which in turn derived its name from Kirk Ella a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle (Count of Aumale), Earl of York and 4th lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Newland, Kingston upon Hull

Newland is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, on the A1079 road, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

North Ferriby United A.F.C.

North Ferriby United Association Football Club is an English association football club based in North Ferriby, near Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Painsthorpe Abbey

It was established at Painsthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire by Aelred Carlyle, a friend of Charles Chapman Grafton, Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac and an inspiration for Alfred Hope Patten.

Pickering Park, Kingston upon Hull

Pickering Park is a park in the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, on the north side of Hessle Road, near Anlaby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Quarter session

In some counties there were multiple Quarter Sessions, quite apart from the urban areas: for example, Yorkshire had its North Riding, West Riding, and East Riding; whilst Northamptonshire's Soke of Peterborough was administered separately.

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Roger of Hoveden

From Hoveden's name and the internal evidence of his work, he is believed to have been a native of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Shane Zaza

He went to Headlands School in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire where he first started acting.

Sykes Churches Trail

The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The Circle, Kingston upon Hull

During the winter the Circle was a rugby union venue for Hull and East Riding RUFC, before its amalgamation with Ionians RUFC to form Hull Ionians, whom now play at Brantingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Thomas Zouch

Though Pitt did not manage this, in 1793 he secured Zouch the valuable rectory of Scrayingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, whereupon the benefice of Wycliffe became vacant.

Vixen 101

Vixen 101 (or Vixen 87 as it was originally known) is a community radio organisation based in the town of Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Whitedale railway station

Whitedale railway station was a station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway, and was used principally by the residents of Rise Hall at Rise in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.