Burnby

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Burnby
Yorkshire
East Riding
St Giles Church, Burnby.jpg
St Giles Church, Burnby
Location
Grid reference: SE836464
Location: 53°54’26"N, 0°43’41"W
Data
Post town: York
Postcode: YO42
Dialling code: 01759
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Yorkshire

Burnby is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, sitting about two and a half miles south-east of the market town of Pocklington and four miles north-west of the market town of Market Weighton, a mile to the east of the A1079 road.

The parish church, St Giles, is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

Burnby was served by Nunburnholme railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1847 and 1951.[2]

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References

  1. National Heritage List 1084145: Church of Saint Giles (Grade II* listing)
  2. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. 
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 4.