South Stainley

South Stainley is a small village in the Harrogate District, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate and the village of Markington. South Stainley is on the A61 road. South Stainley has a pub and a place of worship, St Wilfrid's Church, which is a grade II listed structure.[2]

South Stainley

View from the south
South Stainley
Location within North Yorkshire
Population172 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSE306632
Civil parish
  • South Stainley with Cayton
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHARROGATE
Postcode districtHG3
Dialling code01423
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having 30 plough lands and a meadow covering 8 acres (3.2 ha).[3] The name has been recorded variously as Southe Stanley, South Stonley and Kyrke Staynelay. The name derives from the Old Norse of Nyrran Stanlege, which means Stony forest or glade clearing. The presence of the prefix Kirk is due to it having a church as opposed to North Stainley.[4][5] Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Claro,[6] and is now in the Borough of Harrogate, some 5 miles (8 km) south of Ripon.[7] The village sits on Stainley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure and the land is mostly magnesian limestone with a small outcrop of millstone grit around the village.[8]

The population of the parish was 174 at the 2001 census,[9] falling slightly to 172 at the 2011 census.[1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 180.[10]

The village is the principal settlement in the civil parish of South Stainley with Cayton. Cayton is the site of a deserted medieval village 1-mile (1.6 km) west of South Stainley, and was the location of a grange established by Fountains Abbey in the Middle Ages.[11]

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – South Stainley with Cayton Parish (E04007418)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  2. Historic England. "Church of St Wilfrid  (Grade II) (1174269)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. "[South] Stainley | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. "South Stainley :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  5. Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 415. OCLC 12542596.
  6. "Genuki: South Stainley, Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  7. "History of South Stainley, in Harrogate and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  8. "Stainley Beck Corridor" (PDF). harrogate.gov.uk. February 2004. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  9. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – South Stainley with Cayton Parish (36UD118)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  10. "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 13. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  11. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1020747)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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