Roxby, North Yorkshire

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Roxby
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St Nicholas's Church, Roxby, and in right foreground the ruined corner which is all that remains visible of the 13th-century Roxby Hall
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Roxby
Location within North Yorkshire
Population120 (2014) [1]
OS grid reference NZ762161
Civil parish
  • Roxby
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA
Postcode district TS13
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Ambulance Yorkshire
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54°32′06″N0°49′25″W / 54.535000°N 0.823700°W / 54.535000; -0.823700

Roxby (formerly Rousby) is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located near Staithes.

The population of the civil parish was estimated at 120 in 2014, [1] about the same as the 2001 UK census figure of 119. [2]

Roxby was historically a township in the parish of Hinderwell in the North Riding of Yorkshire. [3] It became a separate civil parish in 1866. [4]

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Scarborough, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

St Nicholas's Parish Church was built in the 17th century on the site of an earlier church. It is a Grade II listed building. [5] It includes family tombs of the Boynton baronets.

References

  1. 1 2 "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2014. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2017. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Borrowby and Newton Mulgrave parishes and not counted separately. "Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics: Area: Roxby CP (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Roxby CP (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 7 July 2008.
  3. ↑ GENUKI website
  4. ↑ Vision of Britain website
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1148616)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 March 2017.

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