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RAWCLIFFE  is said to have the most beautiful village green in East Yorkshire,

and for one week of the year still has the fair on it.

Situated between Goole and Snaith, it is still very self sufficient, with three pubs, village school, surgery and post office, fish and chip shop and Chinese takeaway, hairdressers, garage, village shop and post office.

The village stands between two rivers, the Aire and the Don, and still stages an annual festival in July.

The parish church is Victorian and listed, and there is a grave which commemorates a young couple and their baby, lost on the Lusitania.

It is said the first brass band contest in the country was held in Rawcliffe, and when the railway was opened, famous French tight-rope walker Blondin - the man who walked the wire across Niagara Falls - performed, with thousands coming from as far away as Leeds and Hull.

 

 

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