Carnaby, Yorkshire
| Carnaby | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St John the Baptist's Church, Carnaby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA147655 |
| Location: | 54°4’23"N, 0°14’54"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 415 (2011) |
| Post town: | Bridlington |
| Postcode: | YO15, YO16 |
| Dialling code: | 01262 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Yorkshire |
Carnaby is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in the Riding’s Dickering Wapentake, on the A614 road. It is to be found two mles south-west of Bridlington town centre.
The civil parish is formed by the villages of Carnaby and Haisthorpe and the hamlet of Wilsthorpe. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 415.
The parish church, St John the Baptist, stads at the edge of the village. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
History
During the Second World War, Carnaby Aerodrome served as an emergency landing site for crippled planes. Specially built to cater for stricken aircraft, the airfield had an especially large runway, 9,000 feet in length and 700 feet wide. The airfield also operated a fog dispersion system, the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation, nicknamed ‘FIDO’.
After the war, the site was used to store Thor IRBM Missiles. The airfield finally closed in 1963 and is now an industrial estate, a large source of employment for the local area.
Carnaby railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough served the village until it closed on 5 January 1970.[2]
In 1974, the Satra Motors Car Importation and Preparation Centre was opened at Carnaby, upgrading imported Russian built Lada and Moskvich cars for British showrooms. Although Moskvich had stopped importing cars to Britain by the end of the 1970s, Lada continued until July 1997, when it withdrew from Britain, sparking the closure of the Satra centre.[3]
About the village
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Carnaby Temple, an octagonal folly stands in fields about a mile north of Carnaby. It was built by Sir George Strickland, owner of Boynton Hall, in 1770 and is locally known as 'The Pepperpot'. The structure is based on the Tower of the Winds[4] which is on the Roman Agora in Athens. It is a Grade II listed building.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Carnaby, Yorkshire) |
- Carnaby, Yorkshire in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083821: Church of St John the Baptist
- ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
- ↑ "UK Lada History - 3". Lada Owners Club of Great Britain. http://www.lada-owners-club.co.uk/ukladahistorypage3.html. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ↑ Smith, Duncan J D; Smith, Trevor (1993). North & East Yorkshire Curiosities. Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-874336-09-1.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083823: Carnaby Temple (Grade II listing)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 4.
