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Leyburn is situated approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of the county town Northallerton, on the northern banks of the River Ure, near to the eastern border of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, at the edge of a valley or dale known as Wensleydale, which takes its name from the village of Wensley, 1.8 miles (2.9 km
Wensley is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few homes and holiday cottage, an inn, a pub and a historic church. [2] It is on the A684 road 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the market town of Leyburn. The River Ure passes through the village.
Bainbridge is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 480. [1] The village is situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near the confluence of the River Bain (England's shortest river) with the River Ure.
West Burton is a village in Bishopdale, a side valley of Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It lies 6.2 miles (10 km) south-west of Leyburn and 22.3 miles (35.9 km) west of the county town of Northallerton. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Burton-cum-Walden.
Yorkshire 54°19′01″N 1°55′58″W / 54.31683°N 1.93267°W / 54.31683; -1 Redmire is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire , England.
[7] [8] [9] Horsehouse was historically in the wapentake of Hang West, the chapelry of Coverham and in the Leyburn Rural District. [ 10 ] The village is home to St Botolph's Church , a Grade II listed building rebuilt between 1867 and 1869, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and the Thwaite Arms public house, built in 1808. [ 13 ]
Constable Burton was mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086 as being in the hundred of "Land of Count Alan" and the county of Yorkshire and the population was estimated at 20 households. [4] In 1870–72 John Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Constable Burton as:
The County of York, North Riding administrative county was formed in 1889. In 1894 it was divided into municipal boroughs, urban districts and rural districts under the Local Government Act 1894 . Middlesbrough had already been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853 and formed a county borough , exempt from county council control, from 1889.