St Martin's | |
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Civil parish | |
![]() Former railway line to Richmond through St Martin's Parish | |
Location within North Yorkshire | |
Population | 222 (2011) [1] |
OS grid reference | NZ178004 |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
St Martin's is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located south of the town of Richmond, covering the residential areas south of the River Swale, including the former Richmond railway station and Holly Hill.
Located within the parish is the ruin of St. Martin's Priory, a former Benedictine house.
Richmond railway station is located within the parish, which is separated from Richmond by the River Swale. The position of the station was because it was considered "geographically impossible" to locate the station within the town. [2] Of the ten listed buildings in the parish, seven are associated with the railway terminus, [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] one is the bridge at the west of the parish into Richmond, [10] and two are those associated with St Martin's Priory, the namesake of the parish. [11] [12]
Historically, St Martin's was in the ecclesiastical parish of Catterick, and was its own extra parochial area, before being made into a civil parish in 1858. [13] [14] It was originally in the wapentake of Gilling West, but was moved into the wapentake Hang East, and now is in Richmondshire, in North Yorkshire. [15] [16] In 2001, the parish had a population of 242, which had dropped to 222 by the time of the 2011 census. [17] [1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 200. [18]
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Richmondshire was a local government district of North Yorkshire, England, from 1974 to 2023. It covered a large northern area of the Yorkshire Dales including Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, Wensleydale and Coverdale, with the prominent Scot's Dyke and Scotch Corner along the centre. Teesdale lay to the north. With a total area of 1,319 km2, it was larger than seven of the English ceremonial counties.
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Stalling Busk is one of three settlements around Semer Water in the former Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire in the small dale of Raydale just off from Wensleydale, England. The village lies to the immediate south of the lake, at 1,080 feet (330 m) above sea level. The name of the settlement derives from a combination of Old French (estalon) and Old Norse (buskr), which means the stallion's bush. The village was also known as Stallen Busk, and is commonly referred to by locals as just Busk. Although the village is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, archaeological evidence points to the area being inhabited during the Iron and Bronze ages.
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