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Aiskew
Location within North Yorkshire
Population2,427 (2011 Census) [1]
OS grid reference SE271885
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BEDALE
Postcode district DL8
Dialling code 01677
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54°17′35″N1°34′54″W / 54.29306°N 1.58167°W / 54.29306; -1.58167

Aiskew is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, [2] [3] in North Yorkshire, England. [4] [5] The village is situated to the immediate north-east of Bedale and separated from it by Bedale Beck.

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History

Remains of a Roman villa were unearthed in 2015 north of Sand Hill. The building is thought to have been two storeys high with a hypocaust on the ground floor. Animal remains were found extensively across the site. It is thought the site dated from the third to fourth century AD and would have been situated along Dere Street. [6] The site was covered as part of the construction of the Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar bypass, which opened on 11 August 2016 as part of the upgrade to the A1(M). [7]

The village was known as Echescol in Domesday Book in the Hundred of Count Alan of Brittany, the previous Lord having been Gospatric. The village had 7 ploughlands. [8] The Lordship of the Manor followed that of neighbouring Bedale. [9] The name is derived from Old Norse words eik (oak) and skógr (wood) and thus means Oak wood. [10] Robert Hird, Bedale poet and diarist, noted that in late 18th Century the village name was spelled Ascough - he credits "Mr. Edward Strangeways, near Fencote" with the introduction of the modern spelling "by writing it Aiskew on his cartboard". [11]

In 2013 Masons Gin established a distillery in the village. [12]

Governance

The village lies within the Richmond Parliamentary constituency, the Bedale ward and the Bedale Electoral Division of North Yorkshire County Council. Aiskew Civil Parish includes the village of Leeming Bar. [13]

Demography

According to the 2001 UK Census, the population was 2,163 living in 863 dwellings. [14] The 2011 UK Census showed this had increased to 2,427 in 985 dwellings. [1]

Historical population of Aiskew
(Source: GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth [15] )
Year188118911901191119211931194119511961
Population831847833880821789n/a860881

Community

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Aiskew Mill
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The Leech House

The village is in the Primary Education Catchment Area of Bedale Church of England Primary School, though it is also close to Aiskew, Leeming Bar Church of England Primary School, in Leeming Bar. [16] It is within the Secondary Education Catchment Area of Bedale High School. [17]

The Wensleydale Railway, a tourist and heritage line, includes Bedale station on the Aiskew side of Bedale Beck at the edge of the village. [18] The signal box opposite Park House is a Grade II listed building. [19]

In the village is the 18th-century Grade II listed Aiskew Mill with all its original wooden machinery. [20] There is also an 18th-century Leech House next to the beck. [21]

Religion

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St Mary & St Joseph Church

The Catholic church in the village is dedicated to St Mary & St Joseph and was built in 1878, designed by Mr George Goldie of London, after the original chapel became too small for the congregation. [9]

There had been both a Baptist church and Primitive Methodist Chapel in the village. [9]

The Methodist Church in Aiskew, which was part of the Ripon & Lower Dales Methodist Circuit, has closed and the congregation merged with the Bedale & District Methodist Church. [22]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Aiskew Parish (1170216794)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Aiskew and Leeming Bar". Mapit. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Change of Name Request Aiskew Parish" (PDF). Hambleton District Council . Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 99 Northallerton & Ripon (Pateley Bridge & Leyburn) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN   9780319231593.
  5. ↑ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Aiskew Roman Villa (1426407)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar bypass". North Yorkshire County Council. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Aiskew in the Domesday Book
  9. 1 2 3 Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890. S&N Publishing. 1890. p. 364. ISBN   1-86150-299-0.
  10. ↑ Watts (ed.). Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names. Cambridge University Press (2011). p. 5.
  11. ↑ Hird, Robert (1975). Lewis, Lesley (ed.). Hird's Annals of Bedale. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Record Office. p. 98.
  12. ↑ "Major blaze damages gin distillery". BBC News. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  13. ↑ "Election Maps Aiskew & Leeming Bar". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2023. Make sure that the Civil Parish and Westminster Constituencies are the only two options elected using the Boundary Function on the left of the screen
  14. ↑ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Aiskew Parish (36UC004)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  15. ↑ "Aiskew through Time: A Vision of Britain through Time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  16. ↑ "Primary Education Catchment Area" (PDF). Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  17. ↑ "Secondary Education Area" (PDF). Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  18. ↑ "Wensleydale Railway" . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  19. ↑ Historic England. "Aiskew Signal Box (1252652)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  20. ↑ Historic England. "Aiskew Water Millx (1150910)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  21. ↑ Historic England. "Aiskew Leech House (1150909)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  22. ↑ "Methodist Church Closure". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
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