Londesborough
| Londesborough | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church, Londesborough | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE868455 |
| Location: | 53°53’55"N, -0°40’46"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 182 (2011) |
| Post town: | York |
| Postcode: | YO43 |
| Dialling code: | 01430 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Yorkshire |
Londesborough is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, two and a half miles north of the market town of Market Weighton.
The wider civil parish (including the hamlet of Middlethorpe, had a population of 182 recoded at the 2011 census.
The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long-distance footpath passes through the village. The parish church, All Saints, is a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
Some scholars suggest the still-undiscovered Roman camp of Delgovicia may be in the vicinity of Londesborough:[2] a Roman road from Brough on the Humber Estuary ran directly north to meet Londesborough estate and village, where were found Roman coins and burial repositories.
Londesborough Hall was a country house in the village but all that now remains is the park land that surrounded the house which is called Londesborough Park.
The estate of Londesborough was one of the seats of the Dukes of Devonshire. It was an historical possession of the Clifford family, Earls of Cumberland, until the 5th Earl's only heiress married Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, then Earl of Cork, from whose family the Dukes of Devonshire are descended. The estate's mansion in 1823 had recently been demolished. The 6th Duke of Devonshire was the patron of All Saints' Church, the ecclesiastical parish living, and a hospital for "six old bachelors or widowers, and six widows".
In 1823 Londesborough was recorded as a parish in the Holme Beacon Division of the East riding's Harthill Wapentake. Its population was 244. Within the parish was a blacksmith, a clerk, a schoolmaster who was also the parish clerk, the parish rector, the agent for the Duke of Devonshire, and the landlord of The Devonshire Arms public house who was also a maltster.[3][4]
Londesborough was served by Londesborough railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1847 and 1965.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Londesborough) |
- Londesborough in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1084136: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Pitts Capper, Benjamin (1825). A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. London. p. 669. https://books.google.com/books?id=-pE9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT669.
- ↑ Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); page 364
- ↑ Pitts Capper, Benjamin (2011). A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom (Reprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions). London. p. 669. ISBN 978-1241313456.
- ↑ 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.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.