Everthorpe is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England. It is situated approximately west of Hull city centre and east of the

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

Howden Howden () is a market and minster town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of York to the north of the M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole, which lies across the ...

, midway between North Cave and

South Cave South Cave is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately to the west of Hull city centre on the A1034 road just to the north of the A63 road. North Cave is approximately to the north-west ...

. It lies north of the

A63 road The A63 is a major road in Yorkshire, England between Leeds and Kingston upon Hull. A section between North Cave and Hull forms the eastward continuation of the M62 motorway and is part of the unsigned Euroroute E20. Leeds – Howden The ...

and 1 mile west of the A1034 road. Everthorpe 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 authorit ...

of North Cave. In 1823 Everthorpe was in the parish of North Cave and in the

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of Harthill. Population was 177, which included Drewton, a hamlet less than 1 mile to the north-east. Occupations included three farmers, a corn miller, and the

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of Duke of York

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. Baines, Edward (1823): ''History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York'', p. 203 The area was home to two

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s - HMP Everthorpe and HMP Wolds - in 2014 merged into one: HM Prison Humber.

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* Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire {{EastRiding-geo-stub