Roos
| Roos | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Main Street, Roos | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA290303 |
| Location: | 53°45’13"N, 0°2’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,168 (2011) |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU12 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Roos is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, sitting twelve miles east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and three and a half miles north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.
The Greenwich Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos.
The wider civil parish, including such villages and hamlets as Hilston, Tunstall and Owstwick had a population of 1,168 recored in 2011.
History
The de Ros family originated from the village of Roos.[1] Robert de Ros (died 1227) was one of the twenty-five barons appointed under clause 61 of the 1215 Magna Carta agreement to monitor its observance by King John.[2]
Church
The parish church, All Saints, is a Grade I listed building.[3]
In popular culture
The meeting of Beren and Lúthien 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 hemlocksor cow parsley[4] in the wood were said to have inspired his verse.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Roos) |
- National Heritage List 1216255: All Saints' Church
- Roos in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Information on Roos from GENUKI
- ↑ Ratio7.com, Steve- (24 June 2013). "Robert de Ros". https://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/robert-de-ros/.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1216255: Church of All Saints, Roos (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Garth, John (2003). Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. HarperCollins. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-0-00711-953-0.
- ↑ Hicks, Martin (10 September 2010). "JRR Tolkien and his overlooked connections with Leeds". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/leeds/2010/sep/10/jrr-tolkien-lord-of-the-rings-leeds. Retrieved 23 November 2015.