Moor Monkton

Moor Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Nidd and 7 miles (11 km) north-west from York city centre. At the 2001 Census, the population of the village was 298,[2] which had risen to 348 at the 2011 Census.[1] The population was estimated to have risen again to 370 by 2015.[3]

Moor Monkton

All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton
Moor Monkton
Location within North Yorkshire
Population348 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSE507568
• London175 mi (282 km) S
Civil parish
  • Moor Monkton
District
  • Harrogate
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townYORK
Postcode districtYO26
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire

History

Moor Monkton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small settlement belonging to Richard son of Herfast.[4] The name of Moor, was added to the name Monkton to distinguish it from Nun Monkton, which is over the other side of the River Nidd. The name Monkton, which has been recorded variously as Munechatun, Monketon super Moram, Munketun, and Moore Monkton, means the town of the monks.[5][6] Historically, the village was in the Wapentake of Ainsty, which meant that it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[7] The village is one of the waypoints on the 44-mile (71 km) Ainsty Bounds Walk that covers the old boundaries of the Ainsty.[8]

Geographically, the village is at the end of a road that spurs some 1.2 miles (2 km) north from the A59 road. The River Nidd is to the immediate north, with the River Ouse to the east.[9] The village used to have a railway link at the Marston Moor railway station on the Harrogate Line,[10] though this station closed in 1958.[11] The nearest railway stations now are at Hammerton and Poppleton.[12] Buses call at the crossroads with the A59, south of the village, twice a day, running between Ripon and York.[13]

The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, dates in part from the 12th century. It was restored in 1879 by James Fowler, who probably added the chancel east window, and one at the south of the nave.[14][15]

Notable people

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Moor Monkton Parish (1170217057)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Moor Monkton Parish (36UD091)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 13. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. "[Moor] Monkton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  5. "Moor Monkton :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 314. OCLC 12542596.
  7. "Genuki: The Ainsty, Parishes, Yorkshire (Ainsty)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  8. "Long Distance Walkers Association". www.ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. "290" (Map). York. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244876.
  10. "History of Moor Monkton, in Harrogate and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  11. "Disused Stations: Marston Moor Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  12. "Moor Monkton postcodes - Postcode by address". Postcodebyaddress. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  13. "22 - York - Boroughbridge - Skelton-on-Ure - Ripon - Knaresborough – The Harrogate Bus Company – bustimes.org". bustimes.org. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  14. Pevsner, Nikolaus; The Buildings of England. Yorkshire West Riding, Penguin (1959); reprinted 1967, Pevsner Architectural Guides, pp. 372, 643. ISBN 0300096623
  15. Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Church Lane (1293654)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  16. Goodwin, Gordon. "Hampton, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12176. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. Carleton, John William, ed. (November 1848). "State of the Odds &c". The Sporting Review: 381. OCLC 220890872.
  18. "Yeoman, Henry Walker". Who's Who. 2020 (2020 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 4 May 2020. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  19. "The Moor Monkton Mercury". www.moormonktonmercury.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2020.


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