Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

The town was known as Petuaria during the Roman period, and served as the capital of the Celtic tribe of the Parisi.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} Petuaria marked the southern end of the Roman road known now as Cade's Road which ran roughly northwards for a hundred miles to Pons Aelius (modern day Newcastle upon Tyne).

The town's name is simply from the Old English burh meaning "fortification" and is thus related to the terms borough and burgh.{{cite book|first=P. H. |last=Reaney|date=1969|title=The Origin of English Place Names|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|page=33|isbn=0-7100-2010-4}}

Brough was created a town by the Archbishop of York in 1239, granted the same liberties as Beverley. There is no record of these liberties having been employed, and the settlement operated as a village for further centuries.{{cite book|first=George |last=Sheeran |title=Medieval Yorkshire Towns|page=24}}

The town is significant for its association with the highwayman Dick Turpin. About June 1737 Turpin boarded at the Ferry Inn at Brough, under the alias of John Palmer (or Parmen). Turpin travelled between and resided in Brough, until his capture and execution for horse theft in 1739.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

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Over the past couple of years, there has been a shift in the socio-economic group of people living in Brough because of improved rail links and new housing developments, most recently the Brough South development. This change has brought more money into the area. As a result, the average wage rate and amount of spending has increased significantly.

Brough has a range of shops and takeaways, and two supermarkets: Morrisons, Aldi, Sainsbury's Local, with a Lidl planned to be built. There are two dentists, two vets, hairdressers, a medical centre, a private hearing aid audiologist, a post office. Brough also has a couple of public houses.

Primary education at Brough is provided by Brough Primary School{{cite web|url=http://www.broughprimaryschool.co.uk/ |title=Brough Primary School|access-date=11 June 2013}} and newly moved, Hunsley Primary, previously near the secondary school in Melton. The nearest secondary school is South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College{{cite web|url=http://www.southhunsley.org.uk/ |title=South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College|access-date=11 June 2013}} is approximately {{convert|2|mi|km|0}} to the east of the town in Melton.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the Belmont TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Belmont|title=Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=11 October 2023}}

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Humberside, Greatest Hits Radio East Yorkshire, Nation Radio East Yorkshire and Capital Yorkshire.

The town is served by the local newspaper, Hull Daily Mail.{{cite web |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/all-about/brough |title=Brough Stories |work=Hull Daily Mail |access-date=11 October 2023}}

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The town is served by Brough railway station on the Hull to Selby and Doncaster railway line. Direct rail services to London are provided by Hull Trains and London North Eastern Railway. Other services are TransPennine Express trains running west to Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool, and Northern to York, Doncaster and Sheffield. All east-bound trains run to Hull: some then run north to Cottingham, Beverley, Driffield, Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough.

Most local bus services are provided by East Yorkshire Motor Services. The services run to Hull as well as other towns and villages in the East Riding such as Goole, Howden, North Ferriby and Beverley. National Express also stop at Brough.

The town lies {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} south of the main A63 from Hull to the M62. It is about {{convert|1|mi|km}} to the A63 junction east, {{convert|2|mi|km}} to the junction west (and then a further {{convert|4|mi|km}} to the M62 motorway). Humberside Airport is {{convert|19|mi|km}} to the south-east (reached by driving across the Humber Bridge), and overnight ferry services by P&O Ferries sail to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge from King George Dock, Hull (about {{convert|13|mi|km}} away).

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BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace), Brough, manufactured the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer aircraft{{cite web

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at Brough Aerodrome. BAE provided apprenticeships to local school leavers. The runway at the site was re-opened for a while{{when|date=March 2015}} for occasional use solely by Hawk aircraft taking off after manufacture to transfer by air to Warton near Preston in Lancashire for final flight testing and painting{{cite web

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On 3 April 2008 BAE Systems announced it would be losing 450 jobs from the Brough site.{{cite web

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| title = BAE to axe 600 engineering jobs

| date = 3 April 2008

| access-date = 23 January 2013

| publisher = The Manufacturer

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On 1 March 2012 BAE Systems announced it would be ending manufacturing at its site in Brough with 845 employees to be made redundant.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-17217153 | work=BBC News | title=BAE Systems confirms Brough job losses | date=1 March 2012|access-date=23 January 2013}} Manufacturing at the plant ceased on Christmas Eve 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/aircraft-manufacturing-end-bae-systems-brough-after-104-years-dreadnoughts-apprentices-and-remote-working-will-secure-its-future-3077110|title=Aircraft manufacturing to end at BAE Systems in Brough after 104 years – but Dreadnoughts, apprentices and remote working will secure its future|date=24 December 2020|work=The Yorkshire Post|access-date=4 January 2021}}

There are now proposals to build over much of the airfield – including the runway.{{cite news|url=http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Brough-developers-say-100m-plan-crucial-BAE/story-15430560-detail/story.html|title=Brough developers say £100m plan crucial as BAE Systems plant closure looms|date=8 March 2012|work=This is Hull and East Riding|access-date=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100718/http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Brough-developers-say-100m-plan-crucial-BAE/story-15430560-detail/story.html#|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}} As of 2020, construction on the runway has started with phase two of the Brough South development (Brough Relief Road).

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• Robert Stephenson (1906–1942), first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer{{cite book |last=McCrery |first=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |pages=253–55 |volume=2nd volume |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ }}

• Keir Mather, Labour MP for Selby in North Yorkshire
• Jess Park, Manchester City and England Footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.englandfootball.com/england/womens-senior-team/squad/Jessica-Park|title=Jessica Park|publisher=England Football|accessdate=16 March 2025}}

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