Place:Roos, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 12 miles (19 km) east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (6 km) north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road. The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos and Hilston, together with the hamlets of Owstwick and Tunstall (which were a separate civil parishes until 1935). According to the 2011 UK census, Roos parish had a population of 1,168, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,113. The parish covers an area of 2,333.222 hectares (5,765.52 acres). The Prime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Roos from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "ROOSS, a village and a parish in Patrington [registration] district, in the [East Riding] of Yorkshire. The village stands 3¼ miles N N E of Ottringham [railway] station, and 7 E of Heden; and has a post-office under Hull. The parish contains also the hamlet of Bracken-Hill, and part of the township of Owstwick. Acres, with the rest of Owstwick: 3,520. Real property, with the rest of [Owstwick]: £6,377. Population exclusive of the rest of [Owstwick]: 652. Houses: 154. The property is divided among a few. The manor was held, in the time of Henry I., by Peter de Ros, ancestor of Lord de Ros, and of the Scottish families of Rose and Ross. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value: £690. Patron: Sir P. Sykes, Bart. The church is later English, and was restored in 1842. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £21.

Roos was originally an ecclesiastical parish in the Holderness Wapentake. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it joined the Patrington Rural District. In 1935 the rural district was abolished and Roos was absorbed into the Holderness Rural District. As stated above, at the same time, the civil parishes of Owstwick and Tunstall were absorbed into Roos. The parish remained in Holderness Rural District until 1974. In that year all rural districts were abolished along with the administrative county of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").

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Holderness

This is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington.

From 1974 to 1996 Holderness lay within the Borough of Holderness in the short-lived county of Humberside. Holderness was the name of an ancient administrative area called a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the 1888 Local Government Act and the 1894 Local Government Act. The city of Kingston upon Hull lies in the southwest corner of Holderness and the town of Bridlington borders the northeast, but both are usually considered to be outside Holderness. The main towns include Beverley, Withernsea, Hornsea and Hedon. The Holderness Coast stretches from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head.
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• The "Parish Description" from Roos Parish Council provides more information about the parish.
• Wikipedia has an article on Sir Christopher Sykes (1749-1801), a local landowner and politician.