Cleasby
| Cleasby | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Cleasby Village Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ250130 |
| Location: | 54°30’43"N, 1°36’53"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 208 (2011 (inc. Newton Morrell)) |
| Post town: | Darlington |
| Postcode: | DL2 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Richmondshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Richmond |
Cleasby is a village and civil parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It is close to the River Tees and Darlington and the A1(M) motorway. The population at the 2011 Census of ONS was 208.[1]
History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday book as "Clesbi". The manor had been the possession of a local named Thor, but passed to Enisant Mussard after the Norman invasion.[2] The mesne lordship passed to the lords of Constable Burton from Enisant which eventually ended in the hands of the Scrope family. Enisant continued to hold a demesne lordship here which passed to Harsculph an ancestor of the Cleasby family. By the early fourteenth century the direct line of inheritance had ended and the manor passed to the Fitz Hugh family of Ravensworth who held it until the middle of the sixteenth century when it passed to the Crown. In 1602 the manor was granted to Peter Bradwell and Robert Parker. From thereon it passed via the Countess of Shrewsbury to the Duke of Devonshire. By the mid-nineteenth century it had passed into the hands of John Church Backhouse.[3][4]
The origin of the name of the village is uncertain. Most sources claim it to be the combination of a personal name, Kleiss and the Old Norse -by for farm, giving Kleiss' farm.[5][6]
Geography
The village lies in a bend in the River Tees just ½ mile away. It is also just 330 yards from the A1(M) and ⅔ mile from the A66(M). The nearest settlements are Stapleton a mile to the south-east and Darlington just over two miles to the north-east. The geology of the area surrounding the village lies on a bed of limestone overlaid with loam, clay and gravel. The latter having been quarried nearby.
Religion
The Church of St Peter was built in 1828 and was originally undedicated to any particular Saint.[3][4] It is a Grade II listed building.[7]
Notable people
John Robinson (1650–1723), bishop of London and diplomatist was born and attended school there. He was the son of a cooper in the village. He was Ambassador to Sweden for twenty-five years before becoming Lord Privy Seal and then first Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Utrecht.[3][8]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cleasby) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122065&c=Cleasby&d=16&e=62&g=6454801&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1454687183713&enc=1. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ↑ Cleasby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "History". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64758. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890. S&N Publishing. 1890. pp. 392–397. ISBN 1-86150-299-0.
- ↑ Watts (2011). Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names. Cambridge University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0521168557.
- ↑ A.D. Mills (1998). Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford Paperbacks. p. 119. ISBN 978-0192800749.
- ↑ "Church Listed Status". English Heritage. 1968. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-322648-church-of-st-peter-cleasby-north-yorkshi. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ John B. Hattendorf, 'Robinson, John (1650–1723)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008 accessed 2 May 2011
