Burton Constable is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England. It lies approximately north-east of
Hull city centre and south-east of the village of
Skirlaugh. The civil parish is formed by the village of Burton Constable and the
hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...
s of
Marton and
West Newton. At the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 115.
It is the site of
Burton Constable Hall, a
Grade I listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
Elizabethan country house.
Burton Constable was served from 1864 to 1964 by
Burton Constable railway station on the
Hull and Hornsea Railway.
Marmaduke Tunstall
Marmaduke Tunstall (1743 – 11 October 1790) was an England, English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of ''Ornithologia Britannica'' (1771), probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature.
Tunstall was born at Burto ...
, the 18th-century
ornithologist
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, was born in the village.
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Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Holderness
Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire