Filey, N Yorkshire - St. Oswald's Church - Dennis postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  St. Oswalds Church, Filey, North Yorkshire
• Publisher:  Dennis (F. 0233)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  16p light brown Machin
• Postmark(s):  Scarborough 1983
• Sent to:  East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Filey is a small town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, it forms part of the borough of Scarborough and is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it started out as a fishing village, it has a large beach and is a popular tourist resort. According to the 2011 UK census, Filey parish had a population of 6,981,^[1] an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 6,819.^[2]

Filey is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way a long-distance footpath; this starts at Helmsley and skirts the North York Moors. It was the second National Trail to be opened (1969). It is also the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail which starts at Hessle and crosses the Yorkshire Wolds. Filey is the finishing point for Great Yorkshire Bike Ride. The 70-mile (110 km) ride begins at Wetherby Racecourse.

Filey has a railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line. Previously Filey also had a second station Filey Holiday Camp railway station to the south of the town serving the former Butlins holiday camp. This camp has now been re-developed into a 600-home holiday housing development, The Bay Filey.^[3] It is one of the largest coastal developments of this kind in the UK and the first homes began to be handed over to buyers in 2007.^[4]

The oldest building in Filey is the 12th-century parish church of St Oswald, on Church Hill in the north of the town.^{[citation needed]} Nicholas Pevsner said 'This is easily the finest church in the NE corner of the East Riding' Buildings of England.^[7]

Filey remained a small village until the 18th century when visitors from Scarborough arrived seeking the peace and quiet that Filey offered. Then in 1835 a Birmingham solicitor called John Wilkes Unett bought 7 acres (28,000 m²) of land and built the Crescent, later known as the Royal Crescent which was opened in the 1850s.

English composer Frederick Delius stayed as a boy on the Crescent with his family at Miss Hurd's boarding house (number 24) in 1876 and 1877 and then also at Mrs. Colley's (number 24) in 1897.

In 1931 the spire of a church was damaged by the Dogger Bank earthquake.

For more than 40 years Butlin's Holiday Camp was a major factor in Filey's economy. Building work began in 1939 and continued through the war during which it became an air force station known as R.A.F. Hunmanby Moor. In 1945 it became a popular holiday resort complete with its own railway station and by the late 1950s it could cater for 10,000 holiday makers. It closed in 1984, causing a decrease in the holiday makers visiting Filey.^[8]

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