North Deighton

North Deighton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. Until 1866, when it became its own parish, the village was part of the parish of Kirk Deighton.[1] The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Little Ribston, however, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population in 2014 as having dropped to 80.[2]

North Deighton

The Green
North Deighton
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE390516
Civil parish
  • North Deighton
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWETHERBY
Postcode districtLS22
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire

It is near the A1(M) motorway and the A168 road and is 1.9 miles (3 km) north-west of Wetherby.[3] The B6164 road runs through the village between Knaresborough and Wetherby with a minor road heading south-west towards Spofforth.[4]

Along with neighbouring Kirk Deighton, the village is mentioned in the Domesday Book[5] and its name derives from a mixture of Old English and Old Norse - Kirkja dīc tūn which means a church, a defensive trench or ditch and a farmstead or village.[6]

To the east of the village is Howe Hill, which is a former Motte-and-bailey castle from around the time of the Norman Conquest.[7] It is also thought to be one of the burial sites of dead soldiers from the Battle of Marston Moor.[8] The area was formerly part of the Royal Forest of Knaresborough (a medieval hunting park) and also part of the Ribston Estate.[9]

References
  1. "North Deighton Tn/CP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. "Rural Rate Relief" (PDF). harrogate.gov.uk. p. 4. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. "289" (Map). Leeds. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244869.
  4. North Deighton CACA 2011, p. 6.
  5. Powell-Smith, Anna. "[Kirk and North] Deighton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  6. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  7. Historic England. "Howe Hill motte and bailey castle (1015541)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  8. North Deighton CACA 2011, p. 3.
  9. "Plompton and South Knaresborough Arable Land" (PDF). harrogate.gov.uk. February 2004. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

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