Melmerby in Coverdale

Not to be confused with Melmerby, Harrogate.

Melmerby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales about 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Leyburn. Its neighbours are the villages of Carlton and Agglethorpe. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 40 in 2015.^[1]

Melmerby
Melmerby
Melmerby Location within North Yorkshire
Population	40 [1]
OS grid reference	SE077852
Civil parish	Melmerby
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Leyburn
Postcode district	DL8
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
List of places UK England Yorkshire 54.26316°N 1.88323°W / 54.26316; -1.88323

Melmerby was mentioned in the Domesday Book.^[2] 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.^[3] Melmerby was historically a township in the large ancient parish of Coverham in the North Riding of Yorkshire,^[2] and became a separate civil parish in 1866.^[4] In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.

References

1. "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2015. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2017. 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."Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
2. William Page, ed. (1914). "Parishes: Coverham". Victoria County History. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. pp. 214–225. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
3. Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). "Melmerby NYorks SE0785". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
4. "Vision of Britain website". Retrieved 4 April 2017.

External links

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