AN EXPLOSION WOKE RESIDENTS in the early hours of 22nd August 1917. Windows rattled, rafters creaked and the ground shook. Hedon was the victim of an air raid by a Zeppelin!

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The East Riding has the greatest proportion of “high risk” scheduled monuments in England…

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This ancient medieval cross is believed to have been originally erected in 1399…

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Saltend experienced the first ever daylight bombing raid to take place in the country during World War Two.

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…a room almost entirely of church stones complete with gargoyles and other pieces of church masonry. Some of these may have come from stones displaced…

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BEFORE 1860, HEDON WAS RULED by twelve Aldermen who had been elected for life. The Aldermen controlled everything in the town including the rights to run and profit…

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