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Kirkby Fleetham with Fencote
Kirkby Fleetham with Fencote is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 census, the population was 560 which included the hamlets of Ainderby Mires and Holtby. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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St Mary's Church, Leake
St Mary's Church is the parish church of Leake, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
The church was built in the early 12th century, from which period the tower and part of the nave wall survive. The north aisle was added in the early 13th century, and the south aisle late in the century. The chancel was then rebuilt, the work being completed in 1313, and the clerestory was added in about 1370. The roofs and some of the windows were replaced in the 15th century. The church was grade I listed in 1970.
The church is built of stone, and has roofs of Welsh slate and lead. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. The tower is embraced by the aisles, and has three stages, a three-light west window with a pointed arch and a hood mould. In the top stage is a triple arcade, the central arch with a bell opening, and the outer arches blind, and above is a corbel table and a plain chamfered parapet. Inside, there is a 13th-century piscina, and a carving on an animal reset in the south wall, which is probably late 12th century. There are Jacobean benches, three stalls in the chancel dating from 1519, a 17th-century font cover, and a brass memorial to John Watson and his wife, from about 1530.
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Leake, North Yorkshire
Leake is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about six miles north of Thirsk. The population of the parish was estimated at 10 in 2010. With the population in 2011 being less than 100 information is contained in the civil parish of Borrowby, Hambleton.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The settlement was mentioned in the Domesday Book and the name of the hamlet derives from the Old English Lece or Lecan which means to drip or leak. All other places in England that are named Leake are situated near to water and an alternative etymology would be that Lece may be an Old English word for brook.
Leake Hall is a grade II* listed house which dates from the 17th century. Originally built in 3 storeys to an H-shaped floor plan it now has a T-shaped layout with a 6-bay frontage. It is now a farmhouse.
The grade I listed St Mary's Church, Leake dates from Norman times. The Norman tower has a Saxon cross built into it. The bench ends for the choir stalls in the chancel were rescued from Bridlington Priory at the Dissolution.
Close to the church is the site of the deserted medieval village of Leake.
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Leake Hall
Leake Hall is a historic building in Leake, North Yorkshire, a hamlet in England.
A manor house in Leake was first recorded in 131. The current building was constructed in the 17th century for the Danby family, with an H-shaped plan. It was leased to the Morton family from the mid 18th century, who used it as a farmhouse, and reduced to a T-shaped plan. The building was grade II* listed in 1986.
The house is built of stone on a plinth, with string courses, and a pantile roof with stone coping and shaped kneelers. It has three storeys and a T-shaped plan, with a main range of six bays, and a central rear wing. On the front is a doorway and cross windows, and in the top floor is a blind oval window with keystones. In the rear wing is the main doorway, that has a rusticated arched surround, and a moulded impost band. Inside, there is an early oak staircase, two ground floors with oak panelling, and one first floor room with linenfold panelling, and a carved shield over the doorway.
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Borrowby, west North Yorkshire
Borrowby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated halfway between Thirsk and Northallerton, about 25 miles (40 km) north of York, in the Vale of Mowbray, a low-lying agricultural landscape shaped by the last glaciation, that lies between two national parks, the North York Moors to the east and the Yorkshire Dales to the west.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Borrowby is one of the so-called Hillside Villages and can be found towards the eastern fringe of the vale where the land begins to rise to the moors. The village is said to be of Danish origin (ending –by) when it was some kind of stronghold. It was then mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book and other early records under various spellings of "Berghby" meaning 'village on a hill'. This exposed location has always been good for growing orchards as the hill tops escaped the glacial debris and cannot be reached by the flood plains of the river, the Cod Beck. Borrowby was once part of the parish of Leake, which is further north, and in the first half of the 19th century there was an extensive manufacture of linen. Since 1978 the village has been a conservation area.
The village grew in a linear form along the main road sloping upwards to the north. It is characteristic, that to the front the buildings are separated by a broad grass verge to the main road and the backs of the properties are associated with the adjoining long plots that are accessed via a back lane. A triangular street formation divides High Borrowby from Low Borrowby and acts as a village green and centre with a public house, (The Wheatsheaf Inn), village hall and church. On the village green is an old cross which is said to have marked the border between Borrowby and the town of Gueldable, (and the two Wapentakes of Allerton and Birdforth) at a time when both townships were completely intermixed.
It is clear that the structure and character of the village have not significantly changed to this day, though some original cottages have been replaced by more modern versions and gaps between the buildings have been filled. There used to be a Primitive Methodist Chapel but today only the Methodist Church remains. On many of the old buildings traces of lime wash that coated the sandstone facades are still visible.