Spaunton

Spaunton

Spaunton village
Spaunton
Spaunton shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE722899
Civil parish
  • Spaunton
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

Spaunton is a hamlet and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 the civil parish had a population of less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Lastingham.[1] It is situated near Lastingham and about 5 miles (8 km) north west of Pickering.[2] The name Spaunton derives from Old Norse and means a farmstead or settlement which had shingle roofs.[3]

Spaunton is still the setting for a Court Leet. The court meets annually in October an decides on matters of encroachment onto the common land in the village and hands down fines to offenders. The full title of the court is the Manor of Spaunton Court Leet and Court Baron with View of Frankpledge.[4]

Just after 9:00 pm on the 7 October 1943, a Lancaster bomber of No. 408 Squadron RCAF from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, crashed into the village with a full load of ordnance. One of the bombs exploded and killed a civilian from the village, Mr George Strickland as he went to see what the noise was about. He is buried in Lastingham graveyard.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Area: Lastingham (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 14 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "100" (Map). Whitby & Pickering. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261989.
  3. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 433. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  4. ↑ Rhea, Nicholas (22 January 2016). "When sheep were big business". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Lancaster DS724 at Spaunton village". www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2017.


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