Rawcliffe, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Rawcliffe is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles west of Goole. It lies on the banks of the River Aire just north of the M62 and on the A614 road.

The civil parish is formed by the village of Rawcliffe and the hamlet of Rawcliffe Bridge which lies just to the south east of the village. According to the 2001 UK census, Rawcliffe parish had a population of 2,087.

The village is served by a railway station on the Pontefract Line railway, originally part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway route to nearby Goole.

The parish was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, then in Boothferry district of Humberside until 1996.