Rawcliffe (or Rawcliffe in Snaith) is a village and

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in the

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, England. It is situated approximately west of

Goole Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2011 UK census, Goole parish had a population of 19,518, an increa ...

. It lies on the banks of the

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just north of the M62 and on the A614 road. Rawcliffe, along with nearby Airmyn, was the location of one of the first reliable reports of the practice of warping in agriculture in the 1730s.

Overview

The civil parish is formed by the village of Rawcliffe and the

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of Rawcliffe Bridge which lies just to the south-east of the village. According to the 2011 UK census, Rawcliffe parish had a population of 2,379, an increase on the

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figure of 2,087. The village is served by a

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on the Pontefract Line

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, originally part of the

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route to nearby

. The parish was part of the Goole Rural District in the

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from 1894 to 1974, then in Boothferry district of

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until 1996. The parish church is dedicated to St James and was designated a Grade II

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in 1986. A Local Nature Reserve, Sugar Mill Ponds, has been created on the site of an old sugar factory at Rawcliffe Bridge.

Gallery

File:Rawcliffe Nr Goole, The Neptune Inn - geograph.org.uk - 122564.jpg, The former Neptune Inn File:Rawcliffe Nr Goole, Jemmy Hirst at the Rose and Crown - geograph.org.uk - 123012.jpg, Jemmy Hirst at the Rose and Crown File:Rawcliffe Nr Goole, Royal Oak - geograph.org.uk - 123020.jpg, The Royal Oak File:Rawcliffe Near Goole, Rawcliffe Church - geograph.org.uk - 89343.jpg, St James' Church, Rawcliffe

References

* Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire Local Nature Reserves in the East Riding of Yorkshire {{EastRiding-geo-stub