HISTORY OF BROUGH WITH ST GILES PARISH
Brough with St Giles is a village and civil Parish,this also includes the settlements of Catterick Bridge and Walkerville, also Catterick Racecourse and the site of the Roman town of the Cataractonium according to the 2001 Census the Parish had a population of 338 increasing to 801 at the 2011 Census
Brough was known as Burgh until the 17 century and was historically a township in the ancient Parish of Catterick in the then North Riding of Yorkshire, it became a separate civil Parish in 1866. In 1974 it transferred to the new County of North Yorkshire and was part of Richmondshire District until 2023 and is currently part of the New Authority NYC.
St Giles is now a single farm in the North of the Parish, near the modern working farm is the site of the medieval hospital of St Giles a Scheduled Ancient Monument excavated in 1988-1990.
Brough Hall is a Grade 1 listed country house which has now been converted to apartments, it was originally built in the 15th Century but has been altered and extended several times since then. Originally by the de Burgh family, from 1575 it belonged to the Lawson's.
The former Roman Catholic Church of St Paulinus in the grounds of Brough Hall was designed in 1837 by Ignatius Bonomi for the recusant William Lawson and is a Grade 11 listed building.
Catterick Racecourse sometimes known as Catterick Bridge Racecourse was the first venue for racing Thoroughbred horses in the North of England and the first race was in 1783. Catterick Racecourse hosted The famous Sunday Market the largest in the North of England for several years.
Catterick Bridge Hotel, also known as the Catterick Bridge House Hotel a Grade 11 listed building and sits in a Hamlet on Catterick Bridge possibly built in 1422 when the Bridge over the Swale was re-built in 1422 and re-built in 16 Century and widened in 1792. The Bridge Hotel was destroyed by fire in February in 2014 and following several attempts to auction her, she was removed from the market in October 2020.