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Welburn-on-Derwent
Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Welburn-on-Derwent

Welburn is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Derwent.

It lies on the edge of the Howardian Hills, near to the stately home Castle Howard. It is about 14 miles from York and 5 miles south-west of Malton/Norton. It is a popular area for walkers and bird-watchers. The parish's population was estimated at 523 people in 2013. This figure includes the developments at Crambeck, Holmes Crescent and Chestnut Avenue that are some distance outside the heart of the village.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Steve Serowka (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.