South Stainley

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South Stainley
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South Stainley
Location within North Yorkshire
Population172 (2011 Census) [1]
OS grid reference SE306632
Civil parish
  • South Stainley with Cayton
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HARROGATE
Postcode district HG3
Dialling code 01423
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54°04′N1°32′W / 54.07°N 1.53°W / 54.07; -1.53

South Stainley is a small village in the Harrogate District, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate and the village of Markington. South Stainley is on the A61 road. South Stainley has a pub and a place of worship, St Wilfrid's Church, which is a grade II listed structure. [2]

The village is mentioned in Domesday as having 30 plough lands and a meadow covering 8 acres (3.2 ha). [3] The name has been recorded variously as Southe Stanley, South Stonley and Kyrke Staynelay. The name derives from the Old Norse of Nyrran Stanlege, which means "stony forest or glade clearing". The presence of the prefix Kirk is due to it having a church as opposed to North Stainley. [4] [5] Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Claro, [6] and is now in the Borough of Harrogate, some 5 miles (8 km) south of Ripon. [7] The village sits on Stainley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure, and the land is mostly magnesian limestone with a small outcrop of millstone grit around the village. [8]

The population of the parish was 174 at the 2001 census, [9] falling slightly to 172 at the 2011 census. [1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 180. [10]

The village is the principal settlement in the civil parish of South Stainley with Cayton. Cayton, 1-mile (1.6 km) west of South Stainley, is the site of a deserted medieval village and a grange established by Fountains Abbey in the Middle Ages. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – South Stainley with Cayton Parish (E04007418)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Wilfrid (Grade II) (1174269)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "[South] Stainley | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "South Stainley :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 415. OCLC   12542596.
  6. ↑ "Genuki: South Stainley, Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "History of South Stainley, in Harrogate and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Stainley Beck Corridor" (PDF). harrogate.gov.uk. February 2004. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  9. ↑ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – South Stainley with Cayton Parish (36UD118)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  10. ↑ "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  11. ↑ Historic England. "Cistercian grange and medieval settlement at High Cayton (scheduled monument) (1020747)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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