Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...

, England

England

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. It is situated 12 miles (19.3 km) east of Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

 city centre and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north west of Withernsea

Withernsea

Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and forms the focal point for a wider community of small villages in Holderness. Its most famous landmark is the white inland lighthouse, rising around above Hull Road...

 on the B1242 road.

The Prime Meridian

Prime Meridian

The Prime Meridian is the meridian at which the longitude is defined to be 0°.The Prime Meridian and its opposite the 180th meridian , which the International Date Line generally follows, form a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.An international...

 crosses the coast to the east of Roos.

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos and Tunstall

Tunstall, East Riding of Yorkshire

Tunstall is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north west of the town of Withernsea, near to the North Sea coast...

, together with the hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

s of Hilston

Hilston

Hilston is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and north west of Withernsea. It lies to the east of the B1242 road....

 and Owstwick

Owstwick

Owstwick is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and north west of Withernsea. It lies to the west of the B1242 road....

. According to the 2001 UK census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

, Roos parish had a population of 1,113.

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building.

Famous people who have lived there include J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

, from which he drew inspiration for The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

and other books. Also Ken Wagstaff

Ken Wagstaff

Kenneth "Ken" Wagstaff is a former English footballer noted for his playing career at Mansfield Town and Hull City football clubs. In 2000, club fans of both Mansfield Town and Hull City voted Wagstaff their club's player of the century - the only player to be named by two football league clubs...

, a Hull City A.F.C.

Hull City A.F.C.

Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...

legend took up residence in the village as the owner of the Roos Arms, which is now owned by Armin Hupper.
Roos has two public houses; the Roos Arms and the Black Horse. The Roos Arms is more recognised and bears the village's coat-of-arms.