Hilston

Hilston
Hilston
	St Margaret's Church, Hilston
	Hilston Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire
OS grid reference	TA288336
• London	155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish	Roos;
Unitary authority	East Riding of Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	East Riding of Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HULL
Postcode district	HU11
Dialling code	01964
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Beverley and Holderness;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°46′59″N 0°02′45″W / 53.783008°N 0.045740°W

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 12 miles (19 km) east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Withernsea. It lies to the east of the B1242 road.

Governance

Hilston forms part of the civil parish of Roos and is represented locally by Roos Parish Council^[1] while at county level is in the South East Holderness ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.^[2] At a parliamentary level it is part of the Beverley and Holderness constituency which is represented by Graham Stuart of the Conservative Party.

Landmarks

An octagonal tower, known as Admiral Storr's Tower, that was built in 1750 as a folly for John Storr and is designated a Grade II listed building and recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.^[3]

The Anglican church is dedicated to St Margaret^[4] and was built 1956–57 to designs by Francis Johnson to replace the church destroyed by a Second World War bomb in August 1941.^[5]

References

^ "Parish Description". Roos Parish Council. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
^ Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 6.
^ Historic England. "Admiral Storr's Tower (Hilston Mount) (1083508)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
^ "Hilston: St Margaret, Hilston". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
^ Pevsner, N.; Neave, D. (1995). Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. Buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 472. ISBN 9780300095937.

External links

Media related to Hilston at Wikimedia Commons

Hilston in the Domesday Book

[1] "Parish Description". Roos Parish Council. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

[2] Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 6.

[3] Historic England. "Admiral Storr's Tower (Hilston Mount) (1083508)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 April 2013.

[4] "Hilston: St Margaret, Hilston". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

[5] Pevsner, N.; Neave, D. (1995). Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. Buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 472. ISBN 9780300095937.

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