Thorganby, North Yorkshire
Thorganby is a small village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is situated 3 miles (4.8 km) from the village of Wheldrake. According to the 2011 census the village had 330 residents.
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Population | 330 (2011 census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SE492749 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | YORK |
Postcode district | YO19 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Torgrembi and was listed as belonging to Ralph Paynel, the lord in chief of the area.[2] Thorganby derives from a personal name Thorgrim and the Old Norse bȳ, meaning farmstead or village.[3]
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A church is first recorded in 1228, when the advowson was appointed to Robert de Meynell.[4] However, the present structure, the Church of St Helen, which is a grade I listed building, dates from the 15th century.[5] The church is in the ecclesiastical parish of Thorganby, which is in the Diocese of York.[6]
The village is in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, but was previously in the Ouse and Derwent Wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire.[7][8][9] The village is on the west bank of the River Derwent[10] and is across the river from the Lower Derwent National Nature Reserve.[11]
The nearest railway station in the 19th century was Escrick, some 5 miles (8 km) to the west.[12] However, in 1913, Thorganby gained its own station on the newly opened Derwent Valley Light Railway, which provided a link between York and Selby.[13] The station closed in 1926 to passengers, but remained open until 1964 for goods traffic.[14]
In the 2001 census, the parish had 241 residents,[15] dropping at the 2011 census to 330.[1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to have risen again to 350.[16]
References
- UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Thorganby Parish (E04007775)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- "Thorganby | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 466. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- "Thorganby | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- Historic England. "Church of St Helen (Grade I) (1148469)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "Church of St Helen". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "History of Thorganby, in Selby and East Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England - Borthwick Catalogue". borthcat.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "Ouse and Derwent Wapentake | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "290" (Map). York. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319244876.
- "Lower Derwent Valley | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "Genuki: THORGANBY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892., Yorkshire (East Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5.
- Young, Alan (2015). Lost Stations of Yorkshire; the North and East Ridings. Kettering: Silver Link. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-85794-453-2.
- UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Thorganby Parish (36UH078)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 18. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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- Thorganby in the Domesday Book