Hunmanby

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Hunmanby
Hunmanby shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	TA099775
District	Scarborough
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	YO14
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 54°10′54″N 0°19′03″W / 54.181786, -0.317532

Hunmanby is a large village (claimed to be the largest in England),^{[citation needed]} which was classified as a town until the 1960s, on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, approximately 3 miles south-west of Filey.

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

All Saints Church

The village name of Hunmanby originated with the Danes, appearing in the Doomsday book as 'Hundemanbi' meaning 'farmstead of the hounds men', relating to the hunting down of wolves on the Wolds.

Evidence exists showing that Hunmanby was occupied by much earlier people than the Danes. A landslip occurred in 1907 revealing a British chariot burial site from the 1st or 2nd century BC, in which a chariot was buried horse and all. A tumulus on a local farm was opened up to reveal an ancient burial site containing 15 skeletons. Roman pottery and flint axe and arrow heads are frequently found in and around Hunmanby.

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 a number of 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. The dinosaurs for Blackgang Chine in the Isle of Wight were manufactured in Hunmanby by Beck Engineering and featured on the TV series Blue Peter. Historically it was the home of the Solar Dome greenhouse company, who made an unusual geodetic dome-shaped greenhouse, and also had one of only two car manufacturers in Yorkshire in 1911.