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Brough with St Giles

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Brough with St Giles
static_image_name	St.Paulinus Chapel, Brough - geograph.org.uk - 1558660.jpg
static_image_caption	Church of St Paulinus Presbytery, Brough Park
population	801
population_ref	(2011 census)
unitary_england	North Yorkshire
lieutenancy_england	North Yorkshire
region	Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster	Richmond and Northallerton
post_town	Richmond
postcode_district	DL10
postcode_area	DL
dial_code	01748
os_grid_reference	SE2198

Brough with St Giles is a village and a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The civil parish also includes the settlements of Catterick Bridge and Walkerville, and Catterick Racecourse and the site of the Roman town of Cataractonium. According to the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 338, increasing to 801 at the 2011 census.

Brough was known as Burgh until the 17th century. It was historically a township in the ancient parish of Catterick in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire and was part of the Richmondshire district until 2023, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

St Giles is now a single farm in the north of the parish. Near the modern farm is the site of the medieval hospital of St Giles, a Scheduled Ancient Monument excavated in 1988–1990.

Brough Hall is a Grade I listed country house which has now been converted to apartments. It was originally built in the 15th century but has been altered and extended several times since then. Originally owned by the de Burgh family, from it belonged to the Lawsons.

The former Roman Catholic church of St Paulinus in the grounds of Brough Hall was designed in 1837 by Ignatius Bonomi for the recusant William Lawson and is a Grade II* listed building.

References

"Brough with St. Giles Parish".
(1914). "Parishes: Catterick". [[Victoria County History]]. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1.
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