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Hemsby is a village, seaside resort and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England. It is situated some 8 mi (13 km) north of the town of Great Yarmouth. [1] In the 2001 census Hemsby had a population of 2,973 in 1,221 households; by the 2011 census it had increased to 3,275. [2] Hemsby borders the villages of Winterton-on-Sea and Scratby.
The street was established by 1000, as part of an important route leading east out of the city. [1] It was first recorded in 1269, the name "Peasholme" referring to a nearby meadow where peas were grown. It was known as "Peasholme Green" by 1563, by which time it had a roughly triangular shape, narrowing from south-west to north-east.
The north and east of the county are more sparsely populated, however the north-east includes the southern part of the Teesside conurbation, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is located in the south-east. York is located near the centre of the county. Yorkshire has a coastline to the North Sea to the east. The North York Moors occupy the ...
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, commonly referred to as Saltburn, is a seaside town in the civil parish of Saltburn, Marske and New Marske, in the Redcar and Cleveland district, in North Yorkshire, England, 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Hartlepool and 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Redcar. It lies within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of ...
In 1880 the North Eastern Railway decided to concentrate more on carriage building in York by constructing the York Carriage Works in Holgate. This expanded and by 1910 it covered an area of 45 acres. By 1855 the railway workforce was 1,200-strong and was calculated to be earning about £1,350 a week for the city's economy.
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. [a] It is one of the three regions covering Northern England, alongside the North West England and North East England regions, and covers the historic and cultural Yorkshire area.
The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England. It contains one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. The area was designated as a National Park in 1952, through the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 .
All the houses in Normanby are built along the busy main road. The bridge to the south of the village was built in the mid 18th century [2] and is narrow, so in recent years it has been the scene of many accidents. The bridge takes traffic over the River Seven which runs to the east of the village on its way from Rosedale to the River Rye ...