Market Weighton
East Riding of Yorkshire
Market Weighton occupies the site of a Roman settlement, but the town of today has mostly buildings of Georgian and Victorian origin along its High Street and Market Place.
Looking into Market Place is a statue commemorating Market Weighton's most famous character, the giant William Bradley.
The son of a local tailor, he lived from 1787 to 1820, and grew to be England's tallest man at 7ft 9in tall (2.36 metres). Although recorded in the town as England's tallest-ever man, there have been claims of an English man and a woman having exceeded that height since his death.
The Parish Church of All Saints is a grade one listed building and has traces of 11th century Saxon stonework among that of various ages of rebuilding.
Inns in the town include The Londesborough Arms which was built in the 1780s as the main coaching inn for the area by the 5th Duke of Devonshire.
Town features
Market Weighton is on the Yorkshire Wolds Way long-distance trail, a 79-mile hiking trail with the Humber Bridge at Hessle and Filey at its end points.
Market Weighton is on an alternative route of the trail.
Market Weighton has an old parish church.
Market Weighton has a good range of independent shops.
Market Weighton offers bakery goods, butchers, flowers, gifts, jewellery and other goods.
The town has a Post Office branch.
Market Weighton has a building society agency.
The town has a pharmacy.
Market Weighton has a choice of pubs. 
Cafe and pub food is available in Market Weighton.
Takeaway food outlets in the town include fish and chips, chinese, curries, pizzas, sandwiches.
The town has a library. 
Market Weighton has a community centre. 
There are public toilets in the town with limited hours of use. 
Places of worship: Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, other.
Places to stay in Market Weighton include inn, holiday home accommodation.
Travel
Bus travel
The town has a bus service. Places to visit
Beverley Minster
Minster Yard, BeverleyMore information at the
Beverley Minster 
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 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 
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
Civil parish council
Market Weighton Town CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
Link to council website:
Market Weighton 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
Bridlington and The WoldsElected 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)
1974-1996 Part of a borough within the artificially-created county of Humberside