Gilling East is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Ryedale
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 ...
district of
North Yorkshire
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, England, on the main
B1363 road
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between York and
Helmsley
Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Ryedale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pi ...
, south of Oswaldkirk and south of Helmsley. It is named "East" to distinguish it from Gilling West near Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond, some away. It had a population of 321 at the 2011 Census of the United Kingdom, 2001 Census, which had risen to 345 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census.
In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 360. The village lies in the Howardian Hills just south of the North York Moors National Park and close to Ampleforth Abbey and College.
History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as ''Ghillinge'', and was previously in the wapentake of Ryedale, not the Wapentake of Gilling East, which is now in present-day Richmondshire.
Gilling Castle is on a hill overlooking the village. It began as a towerhouse built by Thomas Etton sometime in the fourteenth century. In 1492, it passed to the Fairfax family and remained in their hands until 1793. Most of the castle we see today dates from their period of occupancy. The village used to have a railway station on the Thirsk and Malton line, Thirsk and Malton railway, which opened in 1853. A Gilling and Pickering line, second railway branching north from railway station went through and then east to Pickering railway station, Pickering. The station was closed to passengers in 1953, and closed to goods traffic in 1964.
The local pub, the Fairfax Arms, is at the base of a hill which leads up the drive to Gilling Castle, formerly St Martins Ampleforth, the Preparatory school (UK), Prep School for Ampleforth College. The Anglican church in the village is Holy Cross Church, Gilling, Holy Cross.
There is also a miniature railway in the village operated by the Ryedale Society of Model Engineers. The RSME railway and club house share the site of the old school, now refurbished as Gilling East Village Hall, on Pottergate, a narrow road running west from the main road alongside the Fairfax Arms.
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Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire