Hunmanby

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Hunmanby is a large village (claimed to be the largest in England), which was classified as a town until the 1960's, on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, approximately 3 miles South West of Filey.

It is served by Hunmanby railway station which is on the Yorkshire Coast Line that runs between Hull and Scarborough.

Given by William the Conqueror to Gilbert De Gant, De Gant lived in a house "without the town" named Le Burlyn (old French for wool house), regarded to be built on the site where now stands Low Hall, the manor of Hunmanby became one of the most powerful in the North Of England. His son William founded Burlington Bridlington Priory. Changing hands through the centuries many times the Manor maintained its importance until the end of the nineteenth century, when the hereditary Lords Of The Manor sold the estate piece by piece.

It was the main market town for East Yorkshire and is said to be the last place in England where King Stephen kept his Wolfhounds. It has a number of important buildings including Low Hall, the original Hall which dates from the 11th Century, and Hunmanby Hall a Queen Anne building built to replace the original hall on a more elevated site.

Hunmanby has over half the population as the nearby town, Filey.

Hunmanby has a number of important businesses located within the village, despite its small size.

These include Cirrus Research Plc, Peninsula Group, barcodereaders.com, the Apollo Group, and the Beck Engineering Group. Historically it was the home of the Solar Dome greenhouse company. The dinosaurs for Blackgang Chine in Bournemouth were manufactured in Hunmanby by Beck Engineering and featured on the tv series Blue Peter.