Beverley

town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Place town Q851718
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Beverley is a town[1]. Beverley ranks in the top 2% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,098 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: East Riding of Yorkshire[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: civil parish[5], market town[6]
  • Shares border with: Molescroft[7], Tickton[8], Wawne[9], Woodmansey[10], Walkington[11], Bishop Burton[12]
  • Twinned administrative body: Nogent-sur-Oise[13]
  • Postal code: HU17[14]
  • Commons category: Beverley[15]
  • Located in time zone: UTC±00:00[16]
  • Said to be the same as: Beverley[17]
  • Local dialing code: 01482[18]
  • OS grid reference: TA035399[19]
  • Authority: Beverley Town Council[20]
  • Official website: https://www.beverley.gov.uk/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Beverley[22]
  • Commons gallery: Beverley[23]
  • Population: 30,831[24], 18,014[25], 17,549[26], 18,624[27]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[29], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[30], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[31], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[32], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[33]
  • Capital of: East Riding of Yorkshire[34]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Beverley[35]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Beverley[36]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Beverley[37]
  • Different from: Beverley[38]
  • Area: 7.24 km²[39]
  • Historic county: Yorkshire[40]

Why It Matters

Beverley has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Beverley is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . citypopulation.de. Retrieved . citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Beverley. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/beverley
MLA “Beverley.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/beverley.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_beverley_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Beverley}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/beverley}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Beverley — https://4ort.xyz/entity/beverley (retrieved 2026-10-11)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/beverley · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.beverley.gov.uk/
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → East Riding of Yorkshire
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 53.8425488, 'lon': -0.4315677}, {'lat': 53.845869, 'lon': -0.42332}
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Beverley
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.