East Riding of Yorkshire
The town is 8 miles north-north-west of
At North Bar is the only surviving historic gateway from those which once guarded the entries to Beverley. It was built by the Town Council back in 1409.
The town holds a variety of festivals. These include a Beverley Folk Festival; a Beverley Puppet Festival; and a Festival of Christmas.
Beverley also has an aircraft named after it. The Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft were built at Brough , 10 miles south-west of Beverley, and flew between 1950 until being retired from Royal Air Force duties in 1967.
Find out more about 
Beverley Folk Festival
Beverley Folk Festival Find out more about Beverley Puppet Festival at its website.
Beverley Puppet Festival Find out more about Beverley Festival of Christmas at its website.
Beverley Festival of Christmas 
Town features
Beverley has a wide variety of shopping opportunities, from its Saturday and Wednesday markets and attractive traditional high street shopping to the new Flemingate shopping centre with its range of big name stores. 
Beverley post office is in Toll Gavel. There are also post offices branches in neighbouring villages.
The town has bank and building society branches.
Beverley has several pharmacies.
Pubs in Beverley range from refurbished old coaching inns to the modern real ale micropub.
The town offers quality eating from good pub food to dining at its inns and restaurants.
Beverley Library is at the Treasure House, Champney Road.
There is a museum and art gallery at the Treasure House, Champney Road. More details below.
For theatre details see below.
Westwood is one of Beverley's historic common pasture lands now acting as a vast open park near to the racecourse and with pleasant views across the town. The remains of two old windmills remain on the Westwood, one is at the location of the Beverley and East Riding Golf Club clubhouse.
Beverley Beck is a short canal, just under a mile long, which links Beverley to the navigable River Hull. The beck had been navigable from the 14th century, but became a canal when a lock and pump were installed in 1802 as part of a land drainage scheme.
The River Hull runs about a mile to the east of the town centre.
Beverley Tourist Information Centre is in Butcher Row.
The town has hotel and guest house accommodation and a youth hostel.
Beverley has public toilets with various limited opening hours at Dyer Lane, Lord Roberts Road and at railway and bus stations. Check times before you need to go at the
East Riding public convenience finder 
Beverley has several schools and one of the main campuses of East Riding College.
Places of worship: Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, United Reformed, Baptist, other.
Beverley Minster, or the Parish Church of St John and St Martin, is built on the site of a monastery founded in the 8th century by John, Bishop of York, who died in Beverley in 721. He is credited with founding the town of Beverley. He became St John of Beverley after he was canonised more than 300 years after his death and the church is built around his tomb which was a place of pilgrimage. Work started on the present church after the collapse of the tower of the Norman church on the site in 1214. Saved by wealthy businessmen from destruction in the 16th century, the Minster saw restorations in the 18th and 19th century and around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries more than 100 statues were placed on the west towers and other statuettes inside the minster together with new stained glass windows. The first of the statues, in 1897, was of Queen Victoria, to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. Find out more at the Beverley Minster website.
Beverley Minster 
The year 1897 was also when the Roman Catholic Church of St John of Beverley was built in Victorian Gothic style just outside the North Bar gate at North Bar Without. The Roman Catholic diocese covering the whole of Yorkshire was from 1850 known as the Diocese of Beverley, although its cathedrals were in York. The diocese was split into the dioceses of Leeds and Middlesbrough in 1878, Beverley now being in the Diocese of Middlesbrough. Find out more at the St John of Beverley website.
St John of Beverley While Beverley Minster dominates one end of the town centre, Beverley also has a very impressive anglican parish church with great architectural interest at the other end of the town. St Mary's Church is situated at the junction of Hengate and North Bar Within. The building of the church started in 1120 and culminated in 1524 after the rebuilding of its tower which collapsed four years earlier. It was given a major restoration in the mid 19th century. Find out more at the St Mary's Church, Beverley website.
St Mary's Church, Beverley Entertainment
East Riding Theatre
Lord Roberts Road, BeverleyThe East Riding Theatre, opened in December 2014 in what was originally built as a Baptist Chapel. It is run by a not-for-profit organisation supported by volunteers and provides an inspiring selection of theatre, music, comedy and literature. It also provides one of the venues of the annual Beverley Puppet Festival.
East Riding Theatre
East Riding Theatre 
Sport
Beverley Racecourse
York Road about a mile from the centre of Beverley.
The racecourse holds regular race meetings in season and is also a venue for other events, including auctions. The racecourse traces its first grandstand back to 1767. Museum
East Riding Treasure House and Beverley Art Gallery
Champney Road, Beverley
A collection of iron age swords found at South Cave in 2002 is among permanent exhibits at the museum, which also stages temporary exhibitions reflecting various aspects of the history of the East Riding. The museum is linked to a gallery with a collection of art works showing the great and the good of the East Riding. More details at East Riding - Treasure House and Beverley Art Gallery web pages.
East Riding - Treasure House and Beverley Art Gallery Places to visit
Skidby Mill
Beverley Road, Skidby
Skidby Mill is a listed windmill with its original outbuildings at the edge of the village of Skidby . The mill was restored to full working order in the 1970s and renovated again around 2008. While normally milling flour, its four sails have recently been removed for a further renovation and the mill tower closed, but the Skidby Mill Museum and Museum of East Riding Rural Life remain open, providing an insight into the mill and agriculture in the area. There is also an independent cafe at the mill. A roadside car park is about 100 metres from the mill courtyard, where there is no parking available. The museum is open on selected Saturdays and Sundays in 2025. See website for details. Find out more at this East Riding Museums - Skidby Mill webpage.
East Riding Museums - Skidby Mill 
Burton Constable
Burton Constable, Skirlaugh For more information see the Burton Constable website.
Burton Constable Locate on map: 
Burton Constable
Burton Constable Arctic Corsair
Reopening at North End Shipyard now expected in 2025.
The Arctic Corsair, a sidewinder trawler, was built at Beverley Shipyard in 1960 and spent its days going to sea from Hull, where it now remains as a museum exhibit. Tours can be booked at the Museums Quarter reception at High Street in Hull on certain days. The trawler was involved in the 'Cod Wars' with Iceland in the 1970s and retired from fishing in 1987.
Find out more at this Hull City Council - Arctic Corsair webpage.
Hull City Council - Arctic Corsair 
Skipsea Castle
off Beeford Road, Skipsea, East Riding of YorkshireVery little but earthworks remain of Skipsea Castle and its adjacent fortified borough Skipsea Brough, but it was one of the earliest Norman fortifications in Yorkshire, built around 1086 for the Lord of Holderness, a title granted by William the Conquerer with land stretching along the coast from the Humber to Bridlington. The site is in the attractive village of Skipsea, about 5 miles north-north-west of Hornsea . The motte and bailey castle was destroyed in the early 13th century, but its large earth mound is still clearly visible. There is free entry to the castle site, which is managed by English Heritage.
More information at these
English Heritage - Skipsea Castle Find on map:
Skipsea Castle 
Travel
Beverley station
Beverley station has two through platforms. Trains run on the line from Scarborough and Bridlington through Beverley to Hull , which is about 15 minutes away. Many trains continue to Doncaster and Sheffield or to Selby and York . Hull Trains run an early morning train via Hull to London King's Cross with an evening return.
Station managed by: Northern.
Operators: Northern - Hull Trains -
Northern - Beverley Beverley bus station
Buses operate from Beverley bus station to nearby and resort towns, including to Hull , to Scarborough via Driffield, Bridlington and Filey, to York , to Hornsea and to Withernsea, together with local services around Beverley.
Road travel
Beverley is linked towards 
Emergency services
Humberside Police Humberside Police Humberside Fire and Rescue Service
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 
Local government
Town council (civil parish)
Beverley Town CouncilThe town council is made up of 14 councillors elected across four wards. The Town Mayor of Beverley is elected each year by the councillors and acts as council chairman and ambassador for the town. A deputy mayor is also elected. The council represents Beverley on other bodies, runs a small range of services including allotments, supports community events such as Beverley Food Festival, Beverley in Bloom and the town's Christmas lights and provides a grants fund to community organisations. The council is based in Well Lane.
Link to
Beverley Town Council Unitary authority
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is now a unitary district rather than a county authority but the least changed of any of the historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
It does now cover a small part of the former West Riding, while it has lost portions of the historic East Riding to North Yorkshire and York.
Other towns in the East Riding include Bridlington Driffield Goole
The authority covers a near full range of council services, except the limited services handled by the various civil parish/town councils which exist throughout its area.
The 26 wards in the authority each elect one, two or three councillors to make up a 67 member council. An election for the entire council is held every four years with the most recent election in 2019.
Link to East Riding of Yorkshire Council website .
East Riding of Yorkshire Council Political composition after May 2023 election:
67 members
County strategic authority
Hull and East Yorkshire Combined AuthorityLaunched in 2025, the mayoral combined authority covers combined services including public transport and decisions about house-building and economic development across
Hull and 
East Riding Elected mayor: ❚ Luke Campbell
Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Police and Crime Commissioner
The Police and Crime Commissioner for HumbersideOversees Humberside Police covering an area made up of the unitary authority councils of East Riding of Yorkshire, City of Hull and, south of The Humber, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
Elected P&CC:
Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside Fire Authority
Humberside Fire AuthorityThe fire authority is made up of elected members of each of the four unitary authorities served by the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service - East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.
Humberside Fire Authority Parliamentary constituency
Beverley and HoldernessElected MP:
National government region
Yorkshire and the HumberCeremonial county
East Riding of YorkshireHistoric
-1889 East Riding of Yorkshire (historic admistrative division)1889-1974 East Riding of Yorkshire (county authority)
1974-1981 Borough of Beverley (district within the artificially-created county of Humberside)
1981-1996 East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley (renaming of the above)