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Watton (Yorkshire de l'Est)
Watton est une paroisse civile et un village du Yorkshire de l'Est, en Angleterre.
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(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Watton, East Riding of Yorkshire » (voir la liste des auteurs).
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Watton, East Riding of Yorkshire
Watton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the A164 road, about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Beverley and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Driffield.
According to the 2011 UK census the civil parish of Watton had a population of 259, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 238.
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Watton Priory
Watton Priory was a priory of the Gilbertine Order at Watton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The double monastery was founded in 1150 by Eustace fitz John.
The present building dates mainly from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A house was added in the nineteenth century. It is a Grade I listed building. King Edward I of England imprisoned young Scottish Princess Marjorie Bruce there after her capture until eight years later, when he himself died.
The priory was dissolved in 1539 by Henry VIII. The last prior Robert Holgate (1481/1482 – 1555) was Bishop of Llandaff from 1537 and then Archbishop of York (from 1545 to 1554).
The Nun of Watton was the protagonist of events, recorded by St Ailred of Rievaulx in De Sanctimoniali de Wattun. The nun had been admitted to the holy life as a toddler but the young woman was unsuited to the enforced celibacy of the life of a nun and became pregnant by a lay brother in the attached male community.
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RAF Hutton Cranswick
Royal Air Force Hutton Cranswick or more simply RAF Hutton Cranswick is a former Royal Air Force station located to the south of Driffield and immediately south west of the village of Hutton Cranswick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The station was developed as a fighter base with many Spitfire fighter squadrons passing through. It was used by the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and several Polish Fighter Squadrons of the RAF. It was opened in 1942, and disposed of in 1946.
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North Humberside
North Humberside is a former postal county of England. It was introduced by the Royal Mail on 1 July 1974, when some addresses were altered in response to the changes in administration brought about under the Local Government Act 1972.
The postal county corresponded approximately to the part of the new non-metropolitan county of Humberside north of the Humber estuary (including Goole, which is south of the Humber). All of the post towns included in the North Humberside had formerly been part of the Yorkshire postal county. A changeover period of one year was allowed by the postal authorities, with the new county compulsory from 1 July 1975.
It included the following post towns (in the following postcode areas):
BEVERLEY (HU)
BRIDLINGTON (YO)
BROUGH (HU)
COTTINGHAM (HU)
DRIFFIELD (YO)
GOOLE (DN)
HESSLE (HU)
HORNSEA (HU)
HULL (HU)
NORTH FERRIBY (HU)
WITHERNSEA (HU)
Hull was a special post town, and letters addressed to Hull did not require a postal county. The postal county of South Humberside was also created at the same time, from areas previously postally in Lincolnshire.
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Kilnwick
Kilnwick (or Kilnwick-on-the-Wolds) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beswick, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Driffield town centre and 7 miles (11 km) north of Beverley town centre. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the A164 road, and 3 miles (5 km) east of Middleton on the Wolds. In 1931 the parish had a population of 180.