is a market town in the
East Riding Of Yorkshire , and is also the
County Town of that
Riding , north of
Kingston-upon-Hull , east of
Market Weighton and west of
Hornsea .
It is best known for , Beverley was classed as the eleventh richest town in
England .
Beverley was the seat of the
Beverley borough in the administrative county of
Humberside from
1974 to
1996 . It is now the seat of the East Riding of Yorkshire (as it also was before 1974). The Defence Driver Training School at Leconfield is nearby.
The town is served by
Beverley Railway Station .
Beverley is also home to the oldest (founded
700 AD).
Beverley was built on fines. The local courts used to fine traders that sold goods of incorrect weight or of poor quality, which made the town one of the finest towns to trade in, since buyers knew that they were buying high quality goods. Traders from all over England headed to Beverley to buy and sell goods.
The five-mile £13m A1079 Beverley Bypass opened in May 1980.
Beverley is also home to one of the last pubs in the world to still use authentic
Gas Lighting ; The White Horse Inn (or Nellie's to the local population) is owned by the Samuel Smith Brewery company and has become synonymous with the local student population due to its low prices.
Beverley is derived from the
Anglo-Saxon place-name "Beoferlic," which later became corrupted as "Beverlith," "Beverlea," "Beverlac," and "Beforlac." This name may have the literal meaning of "beaver lake," a reference to the colonies of
Beaver s in the
Hull . A beaver forms part of the arms of the town.
Isaac Taylor , however, identified Beverley with the Romano-British ''Petuaria'' as Beverley and theorized that the original Celtic name of the site, ''Pedwarllech'', became corrupted by the Saxons in order to make the name intelligible to them by the process of
Folk-etymology . ''Pedwarllech'' is said to signify "four boundary stones," "pedwar" meaning "four."
Isaac Taylor , ''Names and Their Histories'' (London: Rivington's, 1898), 68.
