Hilston

Hilston is a village in the civil parish of Roos, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, near the North Sea coast in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Withernsea. It lies to the east of the B1242 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 27.^[1]

Hilston
St Margaret's Church, Hilston
Hilston Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire
OS grid reference	TA288336
• London	155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish	Roos
Unitary authority	East Riding of Yorkshire
Ceremonial county	East Riding of Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HULL
Postcode district	HU11
Dialling code	01964
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Beverley and Holderness
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53.783008°N 0.045740°W / 53.783008; -0.045740

Governance

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Roos,^[2] Hilston is now represented locally by Roos Parish Council^[3] while at county level is in the South East Holderness ward of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.^[4] At a parliamentary level it is part of the Beverley and Holderness constituency which is represented by Graham Stuart of the Conservative Party.

Landmarks

Admiral Storr's Tower, near Hilston

An octagonal tower, known as Admiral Storr's Tower, that was built in 1750 as a folly for John Storr and is designated a Grade II listed building and recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.^[5]

The Anglican church is dedicated to St Margaret^[6] and was built 1956–57 to designs by Francis Johnson to replace the church destroyed by a Second World War bomb in August 1941.^[7]