Muscoates

Muscoates

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Muscoates
Muscoates shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE687802
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town YORK
Postcode district YO62
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament

Muscoates is a hamlet in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Riccal, 4 miles (6 km) south of the town of Kirkbymoorside.

Heritage

Muscoates is first mentioned in a document of the 12th century. The name is derived from the Old English mūsa cotes, meaning "mouse-infested cottages", or from an Old Norse personal name Músi.[1] Muscoates was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkdale,[2] and became a separate civil parish in 1866.[3]

Muscoates was a small parish, with an area of only 1,045 acres (423 ha) and a population of 23 in 1961.[4] In 1974 it became part of the new district of Ryedale, and was then absorbed into the larger neighbouring parish of Nunnington.

Famous son

Sir Herbert Read, the poet and art critic, was born at Muscoates in 1893, the son of a farmer. He also wrote a fantasy novel, The Green Child (1935), which was described in 1993 by the critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft in 1993 as "singular, odd, completely original".[5]

References

  1. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Muscoates", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978 0 521 16855 7
  2. ↑ Page, William, ed. (1914). "Parishes: Kirkdale". Victoria County History. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Vision of Britain:relationships and changes
  4. ↑ Vision of Britain: 1961 census report
  5. ↑ Wheatcroft, Geoffrey (11 December 1993), "Off the Shelf: Trailing baroque clouds of glory: Geoffrey Wheatcroft ponders Herbert Read's entrancing novel, The Green Child", The Independent, retrieved 19 October 2009
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