Cherry Burton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

[4] The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Burtone, and belonging to the then Archbishop of York.

[5] The name derives from a combination of Old and Middle English; Burh-tūn and Chiri, which means a fort enclosure; a farm with a palisade and a cherry tree.

[9][10] Until rapid housebuilding in the 1960s and 1970s, the village mostly consisted of one long main street as laid down in the 18th and 19th centuries with farmhouses.

[19] Cherry Burton was served by Cherry Burton railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1865 and 1959,[20] with the station remaining open for another five years for the inward and outward transportation of agricultural produce.