Roos Explained
| Static Image Name: | Roos - geograph.org.uk - 71897.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Roos village, Main Street (B1242) |
| Country: | England |
| Type: | Village and civil parish |
| Coordinates: | 53.7536°N -0.0437°W |
| Label Position: | bottom |
| Official Name: | Roos |
| Population: | 1,168 |
| Population Ref: | (2011 census) |
| Civil Parish: | Roos |
| Unitary England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Lieutenancy England: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Constituency Westminster: | Beverley and Holderness |
| Post Town: | HULL |
| Postcode District: | HU12 |
| Postcode Area: | HU |
| Dial Code: | 01964 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TA290303 |
| London Distance Mi: | 155 |
| London Direction: | S |
Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 12miles east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and 3.5miles north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.
History
The de Ros family originated from the village of Roos.[1] Robert de Ros (died 1227) was one of the twenty-five barons appointed under clause 61 of the 1215 Magna Carta agreement to monitor its observance by King John of England.[2]
Geography
The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos,
Hilston and
Tunstall, together with the
hamlet of
Owstwick.
[3] According to the
2011 UK census, Roos parish had a population of 1,168, an increase on the
2001 UK census figure of 1,113. The parish covers an area of 2333.222ha.
[4] The Prime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos.
The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building.
Governance
Roos is represented locally by Roos Parish Council[5] while at county level is in the South East Holderness ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.[6] At a parliamentary level it is part of the Beverley and Holderness constituency which is represented by Graham Stuart of the Conservative Party.
In popular culture
The meeting of Beren and Luthien in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, was written after the author and his wife visited a wood near to Roos. The "hemlocks"[7] in the wood are said to have inspired his verse.[8]
Notes and References
- Web site: GENUKI . Genuki: ROOS: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892., Yorkshire (East Riding) . 1 November 2022 . www.genuki.org.uk .
- Web site: Saul . Nigel . 24 June 2013 . Robert de Ros . 1 November 2022 . Magna Carta Trust 800th Anniversary Celebrating 800 years of democracy.
- Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, 2007
- Web site: 2001 Census Area Profile . 2004 . East Riding of Yorkshire Council . 14 April 2013 . PDF . https://web.archive.org/web/20130414181555/http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/corp-docs/researchgroup/parishprofiles/ROOS.pdf . 14 April 2013 . dead.
- Web site: Parish Description . Roos Parish Council . 27 March 2014.
- Book: Gazetteer - A - Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. 2006. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 9. 7 February 2011-->.
- Book: Garth, John . John Garth (author) . Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth . Tolkien and the Great War . . 2003 . 978-0-00711-953-0 . 238–239 . The flowers, Anthriscus sylvestris, are what books might call cow parsley ... among many other names; but Tolkien referred to all such white-flowered umbellifers (and not just the highly poisonous Conium maculatum) by the usual rural name of hemlock. [In a footnote, Garth adds that Christopher Tolkien noted that his father objected to the habit of limiting vernacular names to "this or that species" as the "pedantry of popularizing botanists".].
- News: Hicks. Martin. JRR Tolkien and his overlooked connections with Leeds. 23 November 2015. The Guardian. 10 September 2010.
