Crambeck | |
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![]() Crambeck village sign | |
Location within North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE73686733 |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | York |
Postcode district | YO60 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
UK Parliament | |
Crambeck near Crambe and Malton in Yorkshire is near the River Derwent.
Crambeck is famous in antiquity as having been the Roman ceramic kiln site that lends its name to the locally produced Crambeck Ware pottery. [1] Excavations in Crambeck were undertaken by Philip Corder in 1926–1927 with boys from Bootham School. [2]
The nearby Crambeck Road Bridge on the A64 was built in 1785 by John Carr (architect). [3]
Crambeck was the home of the Castle Howard Reform School (1856-?1986). [3]
The home, run by Humberside county council, consisted of 5 separate blocks of houses with dormitory rooms in each.
A local history project recorded memories of life in the village in the 1930s and 1940s. [4]
In June 2014 access to Crambeck was limited by a spillage of mashed potato on the nearby A64. [5] [6]
Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Western Roman Empire and ultimately developed into the present-day city of York, in North Yorkshire, England.
Malton is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town has a population measured for both the civil parish and the electoral ward at the 2011 Census as 4,888.
The A64 is a major road in North and West Yorkshire, England, which links Leeds, York and Scarborough. The A64 starts as the A64(M) ring road motorway in Leeds, then towards York it becomes a high-quality dual carriageway until it is east of the city, where it becomes a single carriageway for most of its route to Scarborough.
Welburn is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Derwent. It lies on the edge of the Howardian Hills, near to the stately home Castle Howard. It is about 14 miles from York and 5 miles south-west of Malton/Norton. It is a popular area for walkers and bird-watchers. The parish's population was estimated at 523 people in 2013. This figure includes the developments at Crambeck, Holmes Crescent and Chestnut Avenue that are some distance outside the heart of the village.
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Philip Corder was a British archaeologist and curator, and president (1954-1957) of the Royal Archaeological Institute.
John Lamplugh Kirk MRCS was a British medical doctor, amateur archaeologist and founder of York Castle Museum in York, North Yorkshire.
Crambeck Ware is a type of Romano-British ceramic produced in North Yorkshire primarily in the 4th century AD.
Derventio, sometimes described as Derventio Brigantium in order to distinguish it from other places called Derventio, was a Roman fort and settlement located beneath the modern town of Malton in North Yorkshire, England. The fort is positioned 18 miles north-east of Eboracum on the River Derwent.
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Malton Museum is an archaeological museum based in Malton, North Yorkshire.