Roos
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Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.
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Place details
- Locality
- Roos
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 846
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Roos - geograph.org.uk - 71897.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Roos village, Main Street (B1242)
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.official_name
- Roos
- UK place.population
- 1,168
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Roos
- UK place.unitary_england
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Beverley and Holderness
- UK place.post_town
- HULL
- UK place.postcode_district
- HU12
- UK place.postcode_area
- HU
- UK place.dial_code
- 01964
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TA290303
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Population
- 1168
- Image
- Roos - geograph.org.uk - 71897.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01964
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- Commons category
- Roos
- OS grid reference
- TA290303
- postal code
- HU12
- historic county
- Yorkshire
- P8168
- House of Visconti
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Governance
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- References
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Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.
== History == The name Roos derives from the Primitive Welsh ros meaning 'moor' or 'promontory'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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