Faceby

Faceby

Faceby village
Faceby
Faceby shown within North Yorkshire
Population 188 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference NZ496031
Civil parish
  • Faceby
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MIDDLESBROUGH
Postcode district TS9
Dialling code 01642
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber

Faceby is a small village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is at the north-west corner of the North York Moors and near Stokesley.

Overview

The village is located on the north-western edge of the North York Moors National Park[2] and is 0.6 miles (1 km) south of the A172 road, and is 3.7 miles (6 km) from the A19 to the west and 3.7 miles (6 km) from Stokesley to the north-east.[3]

The name of the village derives from the Old Norse meaning "Feit's Settlement", with Feit being a personal name.[4] It has one pub called The Sutton Arms[5] and buses which run to nearby Northallerton and Stokesley three or four times a day. It also has a Village Hall and a 12th-century Church, St Mary Magdalene.[6]

References

  1. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Faceby (1170216838)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Yorkshire Moors: Faceby". www.yorkshiremoors.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "OL26" (Map). North York Moors - Western area. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319242650.
  4. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 172. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  5. ↑ Wilkinson, George (7 May 2011). "Country walk at Faceby". York Press. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "St Mary Magdalene, Faceby". achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

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