Cherry Burton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...

, England

England

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. It is situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of the market town

Market town

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 of Beverley

Beverley

Beverley is a market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, located between the River Hull and the Westwood. The town is noted for Beverley Minster and architecturally-significant religious buildings along New Walk and other areas, as well as the Beverley...

 and lies to the west of the B1248 road.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Cherry Burton and the hamlet

Hamlet (place)

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s of Gardham

Gardham

Gardham or Low Gardham is a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Beverley town centre and west of the village of Cherry Burton. to the north east lies Etton....

 and High Gardham

High Gardham

High Gardham is a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Beverley town centre and west of the village of Cherry Burton. It lies to the south of the A1079 road....

. According to the 2001 UK census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

, Cherry Burton parish had a population of 1,473.

The village has a Costcutter shop which also acts as a post office and there is a village hall which holds live musical events and hosts an annual local pantomime. It also houses a traditional village public house known as the Bay Horse which has a popular events every week.

There are very active sports clubs in the village — cricket, football, tennis, and even rounders all have a presence in the village. Both the cricket and football clubs have very buoyant junior sections. Just outside the village is the Golf Course, called Cherry Burton Golf Course.

Cherry Burton suffered badly during the floods of 2007 — a large proportion of houses experienced flooding. The village was cut off for a number of hours on 25 June as a result of the flooding.

The village is one of the few villages in the UK awarded with Fairtrade Village status for promoting fairtrade and local produce. It gained this status on 22 July 2003 and was the second village to do so.

External links

• C.R.E.A.T.E Group to support those who were flooded in June 2007