Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 54.535°N -0.8237°W |
Official Name: | Roxby |
Static Image: | St Nicholas Church and ruin of Roxby Hall.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Nicholas's Church, Roxby, and in right foreground the ruined corner which is all that remains visible of the 13th-century Roxby Hall |
Population: | 120 |
Population Ref: | (2014) |
Civil Parish: | Roxby |
Unitary England: | North Yorkshire |
Lieutenancy England: | North Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Constituency Westminster: | Scarborough and Whitby |
Post Town: | SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA |
Postcode District: | TS13 |
Postcode Area: | TS |
Os Grid Reference: | NZ762161 |
Roxby (formerly Rousby) is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located near Staithes.
The population of the civil parish was estimated at 120 in 2014,[1] about the same as the 2001 UK census figure of 119.[2]
Roxby was historically a township in the parish of Hinderwell in the North Riding of Yorkshire.[3] It became a separate civil parish in 1866.[4]
St Nicholas's Parish Church was built in the 17th century on the site of an earlier church. It is a Grade II listed building. It includes family tombs of the Boynton baronets.