| Roos | |
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| Village and civil parish | |
 Roos village, Main Street (B1242) | |
  Roos Location within theEast Riding of Yorkshire | |
| Population | 1,168 (2011 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TA290303 |
| • London | 155 mi (249 km) S |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HULL |
| Postcode district | HU12 |
| Dialling code | 01964 |
| Police | Humberside |
| Fire | Humberside |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
| 53°45′13″N0°02′37″W / 53.753578°N 0.043694°W /53.753578; -0.043694 | |
Roos is a village andcivil parish in theEast Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 12 miles (19 km) east fromKingston upon Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (6 km) north-west fromWithernsea, and on theB1242 road.
The name Roos derives from thePrimitive Welshros meaning 'moor' or 'promontory'.[2]
The de Ros family originated from the village of Roos.[3]Robert de Ros (died 1227) was one of thetwenty-five barons appointed under clause 61 of the 1215Magna Carta agreement to monitor its observance by KingJohn of England.[4]
The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos,Hilston andTunstall, together with thehamlet ofOwstwick.[5] According to the2011 UK census, Roos parish had a population of 1,168,[1] an increase on the2001 UK census figure of 1,113.[6] The parish covers an area of 2,333.222 hectares (5,765.52 acres).[7]
ThePrime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos.
The parish church of All Saints is aGrade I listed building.[8]
Roos is represented locally by Roos Parish Council[9] while at county level is in the South East Holdernessward of theEast Riding of Yorkshire Council.[10] At a parliamentary level it is part of theBeverley and Holderness constituency which is represented byGraham Stuart of theConservative Party.
The meeting ofBeren andLuthien inJ. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Silmarillion andThe Lord of the Rings, was written after the author and his wife visited a wood near to Roos. The "hemlocks"[11] in the wood are said to have inspired his verse.[12]
The flowers,Anthriscus sylvestris, are what books might call cow parsley ... among many other names; but Tolkien referred to all such white-flowered umbellifers (and not just the highly poisonousConium maculatum) by the usual rural name ofhemlock. [In a footnote, Garth adds that Christopher Tolkien noted that his father objected to the habit of limiting vernacular names to "this or that species" as the "pedantry of popularizing botanists".]
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