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Line 1: {{Short description\|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Distinguish\|Melmerby, Harrogate}} {{~~Refimprove~~Use British English\|date=October ~~2015~~2017}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox UK place \| country = = England \|~~static_image =~~ static_image_name = ~~[[File:~~Melmerby.jpg~~\|240px]]~~ \| static_image_caption = = Melmerby \|~~latitude =~~ coordinates = {{coord\|54.26316\|-1.88323\|display=inline,title}} \|~~longitude =~~ official_name = ~~-1.88323~~Melmerby \|~~official_name~~ =population ~~Melmerby~~ = 40 \|~~population =~~ population_ref = <ref name="popest" ~~213~~/> \| civil_parish = = Melmerby▼ \|population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126473&c=DL8+4RJ&d=16&e=62&g=6454876&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1439117350496&enc=1\|title=Parish population 2011\|accessdate=9 August 2015\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics\|publisher=Office for national Statistics}}</ref> \| unitary_england = [[North Yorkshire (district)\|North Yorkshire]] ▲\|civil_parish = Melmerby \| lieutenancy_england = [[North Yorkshire]] ~~\|shire_district = [[Richmondshire]]~~ \|~~shire_county~~ =region ~~[[North~~ = Yorkshire]] and the Humber \| constituency_westminster = ▼ ~~\|region = Yorkshire and the Humber~~ \| post_town = = [[Leyburn]]▼ ▲\|constituency_westminster = \| postcode_district = DL8 ▲\|post_town = [[Leyburn]] \|~~postcode_district~~ =postcode_area ~~DL8~~ = DL \|~~postcode_area~~ =dial_code DL = \|~~dial_code =~~ os_grid_reference = SE077852 ~~\|os_grid_reference = SE077852~~ }} '''Melmerby''' is a village and [[civil parish]] in ~~the [[Richmondshire]] district of~~ [[North Yorkshire]], [[England]]. It lies in [[Coverdale (dale)\|Coverdale]] in the [[Yorkshire Dales]] about {{Convert\|3\|mi\|km}} south-west of [[Leyburn]]. Its neighbours are ~~two other~~the villages of [[Carlton, Richmondshire\|Carlton]] and [[Agglethorpe]]. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 40 in 2015.<ref name=popest>{{cite web\|publisher=North Yorkshire County Council\|title=Population Estimates\|year=2015\|url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0\|access-date=4 April 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0\|archive-date=13 January 2012\|df=dmy-all}} In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with [[Caldbergh with East Scrafton]] and [[Coverham with Agglethorpe]] parishes and not counted separately.{{cite web\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126473&c=DL8+4RJ&d=16&e=62&g=6454876&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1439117350496&enc=1\|title=Parish population 2011\|access-date=9 August 2015\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics\|publisher=Office for National Statistics}}</ref> Melmerby was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]].<ref name=vch>{{cite web\|title=Parishes: Coverham\|work=[[Victoria County History]]. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1\|editor=William Page\|date=1914\|pages=214–225\|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp214-225\|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> The name is [[Old Norse]], meaning "Melmor's farmstead": the personal name Melmor is a Scandinavian borrowing from the [[Old Irish]] personal name [[Máel Muire (female name)\|Máel Muire]].<ref>{{Cite book \| contribution = Melmerby NYorks SE0785 \| year = 2010 \| title = The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names \| editor-last = Watts \| editor-first = Victor \| publisher = Cambridge University Press \|isbn=978-0-521-16855-7 }}</ref> Melmerby was historically a [[Township (England)\|township]] in the large ancient parish of [[Coverham]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]],<ref name=vch/> and became a separate civil parish in 1866.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10448177 \|title=Vision of Britain website\|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. ==References== Line 27 ⟶ 30: ==External links== {{Commons category -inline\|Melmerby, Richmondshire}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Villages in North Yorkshire]] [[Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire]] [[Category:Coverdale (dale)]] {{~~richmondshire~~Richmondshire-geo-stub}}