East Heslerton is a village, near Malton in

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, England. It lies between the villages of West Heslerton and Sherburn, at the interface between the

Vale of Pickering The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic ...

to the north and the

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to the south. With West Heslerton it forms part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

of Heslerton which had a population of 409 at the 2011 census. The village was named on early maps as ''Heslerton Parva''. East Heslerton forms the westernmost part of the Sherburn ward of

Ryedale District Council Ryedale is a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages and towns. It has been inha ...

. The ward extends eastwards as far as

Staxton Staxton is a village in North Yorkshire, England, part of the civil parish of Willerby, and situated approximately 8.2 miles from Scarborough town centre. Until 1974 the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the East Riding of York ...

. The

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and

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pass approximately one mile to the south of the village.

History

A Neolithic barrow group lies on East Heslerton Brow at the top of the Wold escarpment. There is a deserted village at Manor Farm near East Heslerton which is open to the public all year. Visitors can see the remains set in ridge and furrow fields. From 1918 to 1939 East Heslerton Aerodrome was used by the

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and civilian pilots. It was located to the east of the village and commemorated by a plaque on the East Heslerton Church Rooms. Until 1974 the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the

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The church of Saint Andrew

St Andrews Church East Heslerton June 2009 (Nigel Coates)

The church was designed by

George Edmund Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...

commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere House. Work started in 1873 and St Andrew's was completed in 1877. It has sculptures of the four saintly fathers of the Latin Church,

St Augustine Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afr ...

St Ambrose Ambrose of Milan ( la, Aurelius Ambrosius; ), venerated as Saint Ambrose, ; lmo, Sant Ambroeus . was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promot ...

St Gregory Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregori ...

and

St Jerome Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...

, all modelled by

James Redfern James Frank Redfern (1838–1876), sculptor, was born at Hartington in Derbyshire, in 1838. He is best known for works incorporated into Gothic churches, including Salisbury Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral. He also created the eight virt ...

. They were originally intended for the northern porch of

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but were thought too "papist" by the Dean and rejected. They were rescued by Street. The church is now redundant and the Grade I listed building is cared for by the

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Transport

The A64 trunk road passes through the village. A regular Yorkshire Coastliner bus service providing connections to

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, Malton,

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

and

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

is operated by

Transdev Blazefield Transdev Blazefield is a bus group, which operates local and regional bus services across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England. Formed in August 1991, the group has been a subsidiary of French-based operato ...

. East Heslerton was served by

Heslerton railway station Heslerton railway station was a minor railway station serving the villages of East Heslerton and West Heslerton in North Yorkshire, England. Located on the York to Scarborough Line it was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Rail ...

on the

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between 1845 and 1930.

References

External links

West and East Heslerton at Genuki
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