Biology:Barkston Ash
| Barkston Ash | |
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 Boundary stone on junction of Main Street with the A162 road | |
Location within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 370 (2011 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SE491361 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TADCASTER |
| Postcode district | LS24 |
| Dialling code | Template:Infobox UK place/NoDialCode |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Barkston Ash is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly known as Barkston, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2][3] In 2011 the parish had a population of 370.
History
The name Barkston derives from the Old Norse personal name Barkr or Borkr and the Old English tūn meaning 'settlement'.[4] The village dates back to at least 1090, when it was spelled Barcestone.[3] The village previously gave its name to the former wapentake of Barkston Ash.[5] The Ash part of the name comes from a large ash tree said to be at the approximate centre of the ancient county of Yorkshire, where meetings for the wapentake would be held.[2][6] From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
What is now the A162 London Road was a turnpike constructed in 1769: the Main Street and the major part of the village goes East from the junction with this.[6]
On 14 October 1976 the parish was renamed from "Barkston" to "Barkston Ash".[7]
Barkston Ash was also the name of the local parliamentary constituency of Barkston Ash until 1983, when its boundaries were redrawn to divide the area into Elmet and Selby.[3]
Features
The village contains a small Church of England church, Holy Trinity originally a chapel of ease constructed in 1880, but given its current name and status in 1974.[6] There are two pubs, the Ash Tree (on the site of a former coaching inn) and the Boot and Shoe, a village hall and a primary school (dating from 1856).[8] There were formerly two shops and a post office on Main Street, now private residences.[3]
There are three 17th to 19th century stone Grade II listed building houses near the junction of Main Street and Church Street: Laurel Farm,[9] Barkston House,[10] and Turpin Hall Farm.[11]
See also
- Listed buildings in Barkston Ash
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Ash Tree pub -
Boot and Shoe pub -
Former post office -
Holy Trinity Church
References
- ↑ Template:NOMIS2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lewis, Samuel. "Barkston". UK Genealogy Archives. https://ukga.org/lewis_eng/B/897.html. "Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, published in 1848."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "About Barkston Ash". Barkston Ash Parish Council. http://barkstonash.co.uk/index.php/about.
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Yorkshire+WR/Barkston. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ↑ Langdale, Thomas (1822). A topographical dictionary of Yorkshire; containing the names of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemen's seats, &c. in the county of York. Northallerton: Langdale J. p. 149. OCLC 5211910. https://archive.org/details/atopographicald01langgoog.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 North Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes (1991). North Yorkshire Village Book. Countryside Books. p. 26. ISBN 978-1853061370.
- ↑ "Selby Registration District". UKBMD. https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/selby.html. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ↑ "Barkston Ash Catholic Primary School". http://barkstonash.n-yorks.sch.uk/page.php?id=1966.
- ↑ Historic England. "Laurel Farm (1148434)". National Heritage List for England. https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1148434.
- ↑ Historic England. "Barkston House (1316334)". National Heritage List for England. https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1316334.
- ↑ Historic England. "Turpin Hall Farm (1148433)". National Heritage List for England. https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1148433.
External links
- Barston Ash village website[Usurped!]
- The Ancient Parish of Sherburn in Elmet at GENUKI: Barkston Ash was in this parish
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