Melmerby in Coverdale: Difference between revisions

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| country = = England

|static_image = static_image_name = [[File:Melmerby.jpg|240px]]

| static_image_caption = = Melmerby

| coordinates = {{coord|54.26316|-1.88323|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = = Melmerby

| population = = 40

| population_ref = = <ref name="popest" />

| civil_parish = = Melmerby

|shire_county = lieutenancy_england = [[North Yorkshire]]

| region = = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster =

| post_town = = [[Leyburn]]

| postcode_district = = DL8

| postcode_area = = DL

| dial_code = =

| 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 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|accessdateaccess-date=4 April 2017|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0|archivedatearchive-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|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-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 | volume = | pages = | place = | publisher = Cambridge University Press | id =|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|accessdateaccess-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.

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[[Category:Coverdale (dale)]]

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