53°51N 0°26W, pop (2000e) 21 100. Administrative centre of East Riding unitary authority, NE England, UK; 12 km/7 mi NW of Hull; former administrative centre of Humberside; railway; market town, engineering; Beverley Minster (13th-c).
Beverley is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and is also the county town of the riding, north of Kingston upon Hull, east of Market Weighton and west of Hornsea.
It is best known for Beverley Minster and its race course, and also for Beverley Friary and a fine medieval church, St Mary's, reflecting its former status as a wealthy wool-trading town.
Beverley was the seat of the Beverley borough in the administrative county of Humberside from 1974 to 1996. Beverley is also home to the oldest state school in England: Beverley Grammar School (founded 700 AD).
Beverley was built on fines.
The five-mile £13m A1079 Beverley Bypass opened in May 1980.
Beverley is also home to one of the last pubs in the world to still use authentic gas lighting;
Beverley is a suffragan bishopric of the Diocese of York, created in 1994 to provide a provincial episcopal visitor for the Province of York.
| Beverley on market day | Beverley |
| Beverley | Beverley station |
"Beverley"
Beverley is derived from the Anglo-Saxon place-name "Beoferlic," which later became corrupted as "Beverlith," "Beverlea," "Beverlac," and "Beforlac." Isaac Taylor, however, identified Beverley with the Romano-British Petuaria as Beverley and theorized that the original Celtic name of the site, Pedwarllech, became corrupted by the Saxons in order to make the name intelligible to them by the process of folk-etymology.
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