Nafferton
East Riding of Yorkshire
Nafferton has an interesting mill pond which once served the village corn mill.
A moated site at Nether Hall is a Scheduled Monument and was the original location of a manor house.
The Church of All Saints in the village is a Grade I listed building with some parts dating from the 12th century and extended in the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th centuries.
Nafferton is well-connected to surrounding towns through its station on the Hull to Bridlington line, first opened in 1846. Trains continue their journey north via Filey to Scarborough, while stops on the route south to Hull include Driffield and Beverley.
The station, its station house and goods shed, situated near the level crossing at the southern edge of the village, are Grade II listed buildings. The railway also once served the villlage coal depot and a flour mill.
Village features
Nafferton has a choice of pubs.
Nafferton has a shop.
The village has a Post Office.
Nafferton has a fish and chip shop.
Inn dining can be found in Nafferton.
Nafferton has a village hall.
Nafferton has a school.
Places of worship: Anglican, Methodist.
Travel
Bus travel
The village has buses to neighbouring towns and villages.Nafferton station
Station managed by: NORTHERN. Operator/s: NORTHERN.NATIONAL RAIL - Departure and station info
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Places to visit
Burton Agnes Hall
Burton Agnes, nearFor more information see the
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Wharram Percy
Wharram Percy is the best preserved of many deserted medieval villages across Yorkshire. Situated in a beautiful hidden valley in the Yorkshire Wolds, the village was abandoned early in the 16th century after being occupied for around six centuries before that. The part-ruined church with its half-collapsed tower provides some clues as to when the village initially grew. Foundations of other buildings have also been exposed during archealogical excavations. The village can only be reached by a walk along sometimes muddy paths, the nearest road being just under a mile away. However, the deserted village offers an attractive place to pause on longer walking routes, including the Yorkshire Wolds Way and Centenary Way.
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Beverley Minster
Minster Yard, BeverleyMore information at the
Yorkshire Wolds Railway
Fimber Halt, Beverley Road, Fimber, near WetwangThe only heritage railway in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Wolds Railway has ambitions to restore at least part of the former Malton and Driffield Junction Railway. In 2019 it offers cab rides and driver experiences in its diesel locomotive Sir Tatton Sykes along 100 metres of track at Fimber Halt. There is also a history exhibition in its railway carriage visitor centre and a shop. The railway is currently hoping to extend the line by laying a mile of track in the direction of Wetwang. The railway opens on Sundays from the start of April to the end of October and also has occasional running days on other days.
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Sledmere House
Sledmere, near DriffieldThe family owners of this fine Grade I listed Georgian country house with its interesting estate village in the Yorkshire Wolds have welcomed visitors for more than 250 years. The beautiful gardens and grounds, with a coach house cafe, children's play area and stables, are open to for public admission around the year and the house itself opens on selected days through the spring, summer and early autumn season. Sledmere also has a small museum dedicated to the Wagoners of the First World War and seasonal art gallery and events. Although the origins of the house lay in the late 1700s, it was splendidly rebuilt from its shell after a major fire in 1911 and has much of its original rescued furnishings.
More information can be found at the Sledmere House website.
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Emergency services
Humberside PoliceHumberside Fire and Rescue Service
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Local government
Civil parish council
Nafferton Parish CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
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Unitary authority
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is now a unitary district rather than a county authority but the least changed of any of the historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
It does now cover a small part of the former West Riding, while it has lost portions of the historic East Riding to North Yorkshire and York.
Other towns in the East Riding include
The authority covers a near full range of council services, except the limited services handled by the various civil parish/town councils which exist throughout its area.
The 26 wards in the authority each elect one, two or three councillors to make up a 67 member council. An election for the entire council is held every four years with the most recent election in 2019.
Link to East Riding of Yorkshire Council website .
Political composition after May 2023 election:
67 members
Police and Crime Commissioner
The Police and Crime Commissioner for HumbersideOversees Humberside Police covering an area made up of the unitary authority councils of East Riding of Yorkshire, City of Hull and, south of The Humber, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
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Fire Authority
Humberside Fire AuthorityThe fire authority is made up of elected members of each of the four unitary authorities served by the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service - East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.
Parliamentary constituency
Bridlington and The WoldsElected MP:
National government region
Yorkshire and the HumberCeremonial county
East Riding of YorkshireHistoric
-1889 East Riding of Yorkshire (historic admistrative division)1889-1974 East Riding of Yorkshire (county authority)
1974-1996 Part of a borough within the artificially-created county of Humberside