Leavening
| Leavening | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
.jpg) The Church of The Venerable Bede, Leavening | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE785630 |
| Location: | 54°3’27"N, 0°48’11"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 377 (2011) |
| Post town: | Malton |
| Postcode: | YO17 |
| Dialling code: | 01653 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Ryedale |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Thirsk and Malton |
Leavening is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, thirteen miles north-east of the centre of the city of York.
History
Leavening is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book. At the time of the survey the settlement contained 10 households, 5 villeins, 5 smallholders, and 3 ploughlands.[1]
Historically, Leavening belonged to the Liberty of St Peter's; a district owned by York Minster. In 1834 irts population was noted as 294, with occupations including thirteen farmers, four nurserymen, two carpenters, two grocers, three shoemakers, a blacksmith, a corn miller, a tailor, a butcher, a linen manufacturer, a schoolmaster, and the landlord of The Hare & Hounds public house.[2]
Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels were established in Leavening in the 1820s and an Anglican chapel of ease was established in 1850 which doubled as a school (the parish church being in nearby Acklam).[3][4] In Kelly's Directory (1893) it is stated that the school had an average attendance of 55 (with provision for 80) and that the population of Leavening in 1891 was 339.[5]
Parish church
The parish church, the Church of the Venerable Bede, was built in 1850 originally as a church school, but it was licensed for use as a chapel of ease to the church in Acklam. It became a parish church in its own right in 1965 and was re-dedicated to the Venerable Bede. It is now used jointly by the Anglican and Methodist congregations of the village. Parish records dating as far back as 1716 are held in the Borthwick Institute, York.[3][4]
About the village
Leavening has a public house: The Jolly Farmers Inn,[6][7] which hosts the annual 'World Championship Yorkshire Pudding Eating Competition'.[8]
There is also a primary school: Leavening County Primary School, established in 1906.
Outside links
References
- ↑ Leavening in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Baines, Edward (1823). History, directory & gazetteer, of the county of York... Vol.II East and North Ridings. Edward Baines at the Leeds Mercury office. pp. 362–3. https://archive.org/details/historydirector02baingoog. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Church History". The Church of England. https://www.achurchnearyou.com/leavening/church-history.html. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "fonds PR/ACK - Parish records of Acklam and Leavening". Borthwick Institute. https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/parish-records-of-acklam-and-leavening. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of N & E Ridings of Yorkshire, 1893. (Part 1: Places) (5th ed.). London: Kelly & Co. 1893. p. 355. http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16445coll4/id/278530/rec/5. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ↑ "Jolly Farmers Inn". Jolly Farmers Inn. https://jollyfarmersinn.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ↑ "Jolly Farmers". The Good Pub Guide. https://thegoodpubguide.co.uk/pub/118609/yo17+9sa/jolly+farmers/. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ↑ 'The annual World Championship Yorkshire Pudding Eating Competition': Contrary Life, July 2014
