Wressle
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Wressle (with spelling variations of Wressell, and Wressel, in Leland's Itinerary as Wreshil, in the Domesday Book as Weresa) is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, lying on the eastern bank of the River Derwent approximately north-west of Howden.
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Population
- 271
- Image
- Wressle, Main Road.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01757
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Wressle Castle
- Wressle village
- Loftsome
- References
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Wressle (with spelling variations of Wressell, and Wressel, in Leland's Itinerary as Wreshil, in the Domesday Book as Weresa) is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, lying on the eastern bank of the River Derwent approximately north-west of Howden.
Wressle village has a late 18th-century church, St John, and on the western fringe of the village is the Grade I listed structure and scheduled monument, the ruins of Wressle Castle. Wressle railway station is located within the village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wressle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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