The Gypsey Race is a stream that runs through the villages of West Lutton

West Lutton

West Lutton is a village in North Yorkshire, England.The local church, St Mary's, features a sculpture by the Derbyshire sculptor James Redfern...

, East Lutton

East Lutton

East Lutton is a village in North Yorkshire, England.-External links:...

, Helperthorpe

Helperthorpe

Helperthorpe is a village in Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the Thankful Villages that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914 to 1918....

, Weaverthorpe

Weaverthorpe

Weaverthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is 13 miles from Scarborough.Weaverthorpe was listed as being in the wapentake of Buckrose....

, Butterwick

Butterwick, Foxholes

Butterwick is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England near the village of Foxholes. It is near the village of Weaverthorpe. Butterwick is very small and only contains about 13 to 15 houses. It has a church and several farming families. The closest school is Weaverthorpe...

, Foxholes

Foxholes, North Yorkshire

Foxholes is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.About Foxholes...

, Wold Newton

Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Wold Newton is a small Yorkshire Wolds village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south of Scarborough and north west of Bridlington. The hamlet of Fordon is also part of the civil parish of Wold Newton...

, Burton Fleming

Burton Fleming

Burton Fleming is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies close to the border with North Yorkshire. The village is situated approximately north west of Bridlington and south of Filey in North Yorkshire....

, Rudston

Rudston

Rudston is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Driffield and Bridlington approximately to the west of Bridlington, and lies on the B1253 road....

 and Boynton

Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Boynton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of the town of Bridlington and lies on the B1253 road.According to the 2001 UK census, Boynton parish had a population of 161....

. The stream flows into the North Sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

 in Bridlington

Bridlington

Bridlington is a seaside resort, minor sea fishing port and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has a static population of over 33,000, which rises considerably during the tourist season...

 harbour.

The Gypsey race rises in the Great Wold Valley

Great Wold Valley

The Great Wold Valley is the largest and broadest of the valleys cutting into the Yorkshire Wolds. It carries the Gypsey Race, an intermittent stream, which once ran from Wharram-le-Street eastwards along and through the northern Yorkshire Wolds to reach the sea at Bridlington.It is known that the...

through a series of springs, and flows intermittently. According to folklore, when the Gypsey race is flowing, bad fortune is at hand.. It flowed in the year before the great plague of 1664, the restoration of Charles II, and the landing of William of Orange