Burton Agnes
Burton Agnes is a village in the
East Riding of Yorkshire, situated on the A614 mid way between
Driffield and
Bridlington. Places of interest include an Elizabethan Manor House,
Burton Agnes Hall and a Norman Manor House. The village is also home to an annual Scarecrow festival which sees the village adorned with many imaginatively decorated scarecrows. The Scarecrow festival started in 2004 and was thought up by a group of children doing lifestyle and originally made the festival to raise money. Burton Agnes is also home to a small primary school midway up Rudston Road. There is playing fields up rudston road near the cemetery which is home to both football and cricket teams. Near the football pitch is a small bowls field and on sunday mornings Bridlington Archery Club comes to do their archery.