Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and north-west from

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, and on the B1242 road.

History

The de Ros family originated from the village of Roos. Robert de Ros (died 1227) was one of the twenty-five barons appointed under clause 61 of the 1215

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agreement to monitor its observance by King John of England.

Geography

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos,

Hilston Hilston is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, near the North Sea coast in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and north-west of Withernsea. It lies to the east of th ...

and Tunstall, together with the hamlet of

Owstwick Owstwick is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is approximately east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and north-west of Withernsea. It lies to the west of the B1242 road. The hamlet forms par ...

. According to the

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, Roos parish had a population of 1,168, an increase on the

2001 UK census A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...

figure of 1,113. The parish covers an area of . The Prime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building.

Governance

Roos is represented locally by Roos Parish Council while at county level is in the South East Holderness ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. At a parliamentary level it is part of the

Beverley and Holderness Beverley and Holderness is a county constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years by the first-past-the-post ...

constituency which is represented by Graham Stuart of the

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In popular culture

The meeting of Beren and Luthien in J. R. R. Tolkien's '' The Silmarillion'' and '' The Lord of the Rings'', was written after the author and his wife visited a wood near to Roos. The " hemlocks" in the wood were said to have inspired his verse.

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* * * {{authority control Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Holderness Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire