Gilling East is a village and

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, England, on the main B1363 road between York and

Helmsley Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Ryedale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pickering. Helmsley is ...

, south of

Oswaldkirk Oswaldkirk is a small village and civil parish south of Helmsley and north of York in North Yorkshire, England. It is named after the village church of St Oswald, King and Martyr, the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria who was slain by the pa ...

and south of Helmsley. It is named "East" to distinguish it from

Gilling West Gilling West is a village about north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. It is located in the List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire, civil parish of Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury. It is named "West" to ...

near

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, some away. It had a population of 321 at the 2001 Census, which had risen to 345 at the 2011 census. In 2015,

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estimated the population to be 360. The village lies in the

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just south of the

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National Park and close to

Ampleforth Abbey and College Ampleforth College is a co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging boarding and day school in the English Public school (United Kingdom), public school tradition. It opened in 1803 as a boys' school. It is near the villa ...

. It was part of the

Ryedale Ryedale was a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages ...

district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by

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History

The village is mentioned in the

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as ''Ghillinge'', and was previously in the

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of Ryedale, not the Wapentake of Gilling East, which is now in present-day Richmondshire.

Gilling Castle Gilling Castle is a Grade I listed English country house, country house near Gilling East, North Yorkshire, England (). History The castle was originally the home of the Etton family, who appeared there at the end of the 12th century. It was ...

is on a hill overlooking the village. It began as a towerhouse built by Thomas Etton sometime in the fourteenth century. In 1492, it passed to the Fairfax family and remained in their hands until 1793. Most of the castle we see today dates from their period of occupancy. The village used to have a railway station on the Thirsk and Malton railway, which opened in 1853. A second railway branching north from railway station went through and then east to Pickering. The station was closed to passengers in 1953, and closed to goods traffic in 1964. The local pub, the Fairfax Arms, is at the base of a hill which leads up the drive to

, formerly St Martins Ampleforth, the Prep School for

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. The

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church in the village is Holy Cross. There is also a

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in the village operated by the Ryedale Society of Model Engineers. The RSME railway and club house share the site of the old school, now refurbished as Gilling East Village Hall, on Pottergate, a narrow road running west from the main road alongside the Fairfax Arms.

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