Welcome to the East and West Rountons website.

East Rounton is a model village near Northallerton in Yorkshire constructed for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, the ironmaster on his estate near Rounton Grange designed by Philip Webb. East Rounton church of St Lawrence contains a splendid Strachan window and another side window celebrating the life of the scholar, explorer, and arabist Gertrude Bell now popularly known as Queen of the Desert. The village hall designed by George Jack is at East Rounton and there is a War Memorial in front of it. West Rounton is about 1 mile away from East across the fields and has the church of St Oswald and two pubs, The Grey Horse and the Horse Shoe Inn. West Rounton also contains Whitehouse plant nurseries and is home to Stamfrey farm organic clotted cream. This website is maintained by East Rounton village hall committee as a service to local residents in the Rountons.

The origins of the name Rounton and its spelling are open to some debate. One of the more fanciful explanations on GENUKI claims it is derived from the the Anglo-Saxon for prince: "The name has been variously written at different times Roughton, Wroughton, Rungeton, Rouncton, and Rounton as at present, and may possibly have some connection with the Saxon Rinc,a prince, though there are no traditions of its having been at any time a royal residence." However, I think that the East and West Rountons may have a twin in North and South Runcton (near King's Lynn) and the name derives from a particular type of bridge between the two places.

This description taken from the Runcton website: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place Names says that the first part of the name is from the Old English "hrung" meaning a rung or pole. This is likely to refer to a primitive bridge over marshy ground formed by placing poles close together at right angles to the direction of the road. Such bridges are still seen in Sweden today, where they are called "kavelbro".

The next village hall event will be the Mad March Ceilidh with Live band and Caller on Saturday 8th March 2008 - with pie & pea supper and licensed bar until midnight.

The Rountons Festival 2005
Festival Photo Gallery 2005
East Rounton Village Hall
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Travelling to Rounton by car from Middlesbrough or Northallerton and Local Road Detail