Long Riston
| Long Riston | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Main Street Long Riston | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA125425 |
| Location: | 53°52’1"N, 0°17’26"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hull |
| Postcode: | HU11 |
| Dialling code: | 01964 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Long Riston is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Holderness, about nine miles north of Kingston upon Hull city centre and six miles east of Beverley town centre. It is to the east of the A165 road which by-passes the village.
Long Riston, with the hamlet of Arnold, forms the civil parish of Riston.
The parish church, St Margaret, is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
The village is a commuter settlement for those working in Hull and Beverley. The village has one public house, The Micro Pig.
History
In 1823 Long Riston was noted as a parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. The population at the time was 361. Occupations included eight farmers, two blacksmiths, three grocers, two shoemakers, two tailors, two wheelwrights, a butcher, a bricklayer, a hawker, and the landlord of The Traveller public house. Two carriers operated between the village and Hull, and Beverley, twice weekly.[2]
In 1872 land adjacent to Main Street was given for the establishment of a school. The school was completed in March 1873. Until the late 1950s it was known as Long Riston School and served both Long Riston and the hamlet of Arnold. Subsequently, it became known as Riston C E Primary School. The school is a voluntary controlled church school in the diocese of York.
The church stands back from the road in fields at the north end of the village that show signs of mediæval ridge and furrow farming and next to an area called Butt Hills that seems to hint at more history as these are in the right place for and carry the right name for mediæval Archery Butts.[3] Long Riston Archery Festival has been held yearly since 2013 in the Mediæval archery butts next to St Margaret's church, Long Riston.[4]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Long Riston) |
- Riston Long Riston in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083422: Church of St Margaret (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. pp. 582, 583.
- ↑ "Long Riston North 2". Geocaching - the Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3YVB6_long-riston-north-2?guid=056c5092-2fd6-472c-949d-58255b3a11c7. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- ↑ "Long Riston Archery Festival". https://www.archeryfestival.org/. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- A History of the County of York: East Riding - Volume 7 pp pp340-349: Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions (Victoria County History)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.
