Aike
| Aike | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Aike village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA049458 |
| Location: | 53°53’55"N, 0°24’15"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Driffield |
| Postcode: | YO25 |
| Dialling code: | 01377 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Beverley and Holderness |
Aike is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is centred around a single developed street, and stands to the east of the Yorkshire Wolds. Aike is approximately four miles north of Beverley and half a mile from the west bank of the River Hull. It is approached by a two-and-a-half miles lane which is a no-through road that does not continue beyond the village, although a farm track continues as far as a bridge across the Beverley and Barmston Drain.
The name of the village means "oak". In the local dialect, the name was not rounded to be recorded as oak or oake unlike equivalents — it remained the Old English ac. The name is sometimes pronounced "Yack".[1]
History
The village was historically a hamlet in the parish of Lockington (briefly breaking away as a civil parish on its own until 1935). The ecclesiastical parish is 'Lockington and Aike' of which the parish church, St Mary's, is in Lockington, a mile and a half to the west of Aike.
The land around Aike is too low-lying to drain into the nearby River Hull. Before construction began on the Beverley and Barmston Drain in 1798, Aike's cluster of central houses were on a small island.[2][3]
Economy and landmarks
Aike Grange Stud is a dressage park, and hosts regional competitions. Eighteenth-century "Sunnyside" or "Sunnyside cottage" is a brick-built, colour-washed house with a pantile roof and sash windows: it is a Grade II listed building.[4]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Aike) |
- Aike in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Reaney, P. H. (1969). The Origin of English Place Names. Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 44. ISBN 0-7100-2010-4.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Bulmer, T. (1892). History, Topography, and Directory of East Yorkshire (with Hull). T. Bulmer & Co.. pp. 453–455. http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16445coll4/id/278593/rec/8. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1160665: Sunnyside (Grade II listing)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 3.
