Helperby

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Helperby
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Golden Lion on Main Street
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Helperby
Location within North Yorkshire
Population520 (2011 census) [1]
OS grid reference SE439698
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town YORK
Postcode district YO61
Dialling code 01423
Police North Yorkshire
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54°07′23″N1°19′46″W / 54.12306°N 1.32944°W / 54.12306; -1.32944

Helperby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brafferton and Helperby, in North Yorkshire, England, about five miles west of Easingwold. [2] Over the years it has joined onto Brafferton.

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Helperby has the Millennium Village Hall, a butcher's shop, a doctor's surgery and a mobile bakery and post office (open only on specific days). There are two pubs, one a restaurant with rooms, one a village inn, and a disused Methodist Chapel which is now a house. In 2008 Helperby had a new pavilion at the football and cricket pitch. There is also a war memorial, in memory of war soldiers in World War One

There is also an annual beer festival held in September to raise funds for future development of a Children's play area.

Helperby's Millennium Hall Millennium Hall, Helperby, North Yorkshire.jpg
Helperby's Millennium Hall

The film The Life and Crimes of William Palmer was filmed in the village in 1998.

There is now a Children's play area, located outside the Millennium Village Hall, next to the post office.

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Helperby's War Memorial

In 2022 a Wedding Event venue was opened, located in the gardens of Helperby Hall.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward had a total population of 1,922 at the Census 2011. [3]

Newton-by-Chester was formerly a township in the parish of Brafferton, [4] in 1866 Helperby became a separate civil parish, [5] on 1 April 2019 the parish was merged with Brafferton to form "Brafferton and Helperby". [6]

Until 1974 it was in the North Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was in Hambleton district.

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References

  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Helperby Parish (1170216852)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 99 Northallerton & Ripon (Pateley Bridge & Leyburn) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN   9780319231593.
  3. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Helperby 2011 Census Ward (1237325067)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. "History of Helperby, in Hambleton and North Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  5. "Relationships and changes Helperby CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  6. "The Hambleton District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Brafferton and Helperby) Order 2019" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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