Market Weighton facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Market Weighton |
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The High Street |
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Population | 6,429 (2011 census) |
OS grid reference | SE879417 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | YORK |
Postcode district | YO43 |
Dialling code | 01430 |
Police | Humberside |
Fire | Humberside |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Market Weighton ( WEE-tən) is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is one of the main market towns in the East Yorkshire Wolds and lies midway between Hull and York, about 20 miles (32 km) from either one. According to the 2011 UK census, Market Weighton parish had a population of 6,429, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 5,212.
Landmarks
The church dedicated to All Saints was designated a Grade I listed building in 1967 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.
Transport
Market Weighton railway station was at the junction of the lines to Selby, Driffield, York and Beverley. The last train ran in 1965. The abandoned lines to Beverley, and to Selby are now used as public paths, as the Hudson Way and Bubwith Rail Trail respectively.
Bus services provided by East Yorkshire Motor Services, link the town with Beverley, Hull, Pocklington, York, Holme on Spalding Moor, Driffield and Bridlington.
The three-mile £5.1 million A1079 bypass opened in March 1991.
The Minsters Rail Campaign is campaigning to re-open the railway line between Beverley and York (with stops at Stamford Bridge, Pocklington and Market Weighton). The re-opened railway would skirt the edge of the town as the former alignment has since been built over.
Notable people
- William Bradley (1787–1820), tallest ever Briton
- Barbara Foxley (1860–1958) suffragist and professor of education
- William Umpleby Kirk, (1843–1928) photographer
- Frank Mitchell (1872–1935), cricketer
- Hilda Lyon (1896–1946), engineer who invented the Lyon Shape
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See also
In Spanish: Market Weighton para niños