Burton Agnes (named after
Agnes de Percy) is a village and
civil parish
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in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England. It is situated on the
A614 road midway between
Driffield
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and
Bridlington
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.
![142941 63efefae-GatehouseBurtonAgnesHall(StephenHorncastle)Mar2006](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/142941_63efefae-GatehouseBurtonAgnesHall%28StephenHorncastle%29Mar2006.jpg)
Local landmarks include an Elizabethan manor house,
Burton Agnes Hall, and a Norman manor house,
Burton Agnes Manor House
Burton Agnes Manor House is an English Heritage property, located in the village of Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire, England only a few yards away from the newer Burton Agnes Hall.
It is a surviving example of a Norman manor house wi ...
. Both buildings are recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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, maintained by
Historic England
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as
Grade I listed. The church, dedicated to St Martin, was designated as Grade I listed in 1966.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Burton Agnes and the
hamlet
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s of
Gransmoor and
Thornholme.
According to the
2011 UK Census, Burton Agnes parish had a population of 497,
an increase of one over the
2001 UK Census
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The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
figure.
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From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Burton Agnes was part of
Dickering Wapentake
Dickering was a wapentake (which is an administrative division) of the historic county called East Riding of Yorkshire in England, consisting of the north-east part of that county, including the towns of Bridlington and Filey; its territory is ...
. Between 1894 and 1974 Burton Agnes was a part of the
Bridlington Rural District
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, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Between 1974 and 1996 it was part of the Borough of North Wolds (later
Borough of East Yorkshire, in the county of
Humberside
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.
![Burton Agnes Level Crossing - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Burton_Agnes_Level_Crossing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_142922.jpg)
Burton Agnes holds an annual
Scarecrow
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Festival during which the village is decorated with scarecrows. The festival began in 2004 and was devised by a group of children to raise money.
Burton Agnes primary school is on Rudston Road, also on which are playing fields, close to the
cemetery
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. The playing fields are the base for football and cricket teams. There is a small
bowls field near the football pitch. Bridlington
Archery Club also uses the facility.
Burton Agnes railway station on the
Yorkshire Coast Line
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from
Hull to
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
People
* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
Places Australia
* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
* Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong
* Scarborough, Queensland, su ...
served the village until it closed on 5 January 1970.
On 17 September 1947 a truck carrying German prisoners of war was in collision with a train at the Burton Agnes level crossing killing two British and ten German soldiers. On 23 December 2013 a plaque was unveiled at the site of the crash in remembrance those who died.
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Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire