Ainderby Quernhow
| Ainderby Quernhow | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 The Black Horse, Ainderby Quernhow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE347809 |
| Location: | 54°13’23"N, 1°28’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 70 (2014 est.) |
| Post town: | Thirsk |
| Postcode: | YO7 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Yorkshire |
Ainderby Quernhow is a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, found beside the B6267 Thirsk to Masham road just east of the A1(M)[1] and is about five miles west of Thirsk. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2014.
The Quernhow at Ainderby is a small mound on the nearby Roman Road which marked the boundary between the parishes of Ainderby and Middleton Quernhow. The mound at Ainderby Quernhow was demolished to make way for the upgrading of the A1(M) and its history is commemorated in a stone laid down in the grounds of the Quernhow Café which now adjoins the A6055.[2]
Ainderby Mires and Ainderby Steeple are also in the district, the latter refers to the local church spire, the former to marshy mires.[3]
Ainderby is a place name originally meant village belonging to Eindrithi, a Viking whose name meant 'sole-ruler'. Quernhow, which has also been spelled Whernhowe and Whernou means mill-hill. The first element derives from the Old Norse word kvern meaning a quern: a mill stone.[4] How, deriving from the Old Norse word haugr, means a hill.
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ainderby Quernhow) |
- Quernhow Ainderby Quernhow in the Domesday Book
- Map of Ainderby Quernhow showing house names
References
- ↑ The B6267 on SABRE
- ↑ Minting, Stuart (21 November 2012). "Ancient Quernhow monument commemorated". The Northern Echo. http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northyorkshire/bedale/10062125.Ancient_Quernhow_monument_commemorated/?ref=arc. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ↑ "Yorkshire Place-Names A to D". http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsAtoD.html. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ↑ Weightman, Paul (2015). Yorkshire and its origins. Lulu. p. 66. ISBN 9781326475123. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27920451-yorkshire-and-its-origins. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
