Molescroft
| Molescroft | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Molescroft Inn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA019407 |
| Location: | 53°51’11"N, 0°27’6"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 6,820 (2011) |
| Post town: | Beverley |
| Postcode: | HU17 |
| Dialling code: | 01482 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Molescroft is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is situated approximately half a mile north-west of Beverley town centre adjoining its northern border. It lies to the north of the A1174 road and is on the eastern slopes of the Yorkshire Wolds.
The Yorkshire Coast railway line from Hull to Scarborough passes through the parish but the nearest station is Beverley.
According to the 2011 census, Molescroft had a population of 6,820: an increase from the past due to major housing developments in the north and east of the village due to unused greenfield land, firstly in the late 1990s and secondly, on a smaller scale, in the 2010s. Until the early 1990s, Molescroft was very small, with the majority of the modern village being used as allotments and small farming ventures. However, housing developers saw a large, cheap area of land to place housing for the swiftly expanding Beverley. Within a decade, Molescroft grew from a small agricultural village with a population of a few hundred, to 6,810 in 2001.
History
Molescroft is listed in the Domesday Book as in the Hundred of Sneculfcros in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement contained two households, two villeins, and two ploughlands. In 1066 Ealdred, Archbishop of York, was the Lord, this in 1086 transferred to the canons of Beverley Minster, and the later Archbishop of York Thomas of Bayeux who was also Tenant-in-chief to the King.[1]
In 1823 Molescroft was noted as being in the parish of Beverley Minster, and the Wapentake of Harthill. Population at the time was 111, with occupations including four farmers, and the landlord of The Wellington public house. Residents included two gentlemen.[2]
Parish
The parish church that is dedicated to St Leonard was built in 1896, with the addition of a chancel in 1979 and further additions of a vestry, kitchen and toilets in 2001.[3]
About the village
The Molescroft Inn is a late 18th-century public house that is now a Grade II listed building.[4]
Woodhall Way playing fields are a large green space with a children's play area, skate ramps, an enclosed combined basketball and football pitch and a Pétanque court.
Molescroft Pavilion is a community hall and events venue ran by the parish council and also sited on Woodhall Way playing fields.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Molescroft) |
References
- ↑ Molescroft in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); page 370
- ↑ "St Leonard's Molescroft". Beverley Minster. http://beverleyminster.org.uk/join-us/st-leonards-molescroft/. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1103464: The Molescroft (Grade II listing)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.
