Cherry Burton

Cherry Burton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 3mi north-west of the market town of Beverley on the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds and lies to the west of the B1248 road.The civil parish is formed by the village of Cherry Burton and the hamlets of Gardham and High Gardham. According to the 2011 UK Census, Cherry Burton parish had a population of 1,392, a reduction on the 2001 UK Census figure of 1,473.The village has a Costcutter shop which also acts as a post office and a village hall which holds live musical events and hosts an annual local pantomime. The village public house, the Bay Horse, holds events each week.Sports in the village includes cricket, football, tennis, and rounders. Clubs for cricket and football have junior sections. Just outside of the village is a golf course, first opened in September 1993 by the Slingsby brothers, and a leisure park currently under redevelopment.The village is one of the few in the UK awarded Fairtrade Village status for promoting fairtrade and local produce. It gained this status on 22 July 2003 and was the second village to do so.