Markington

Markington is a village in the Harrogate district, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The population of the civil parish (including Markenfield Hall) taken at the 2011 census was 629.[1] Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate, the village of South Stainley and the hamlet of Ingerthorpe. The A61 is nearby. Markington has a school, post office, village hall, cricket and football pitch, a church, a pub and a camp site.

Street in Markington
St. Michael the Archangel church

The place name was first recorded in about 1030 as Mercinga tun. The name is probably from Old English mercinga "of the boundary people" and tūn "settlement or farmstead", so meaning "settlement of the boundary people". Or it might be derived from the name of the nearby settlement of Markenfield, so meaning "farmstead of the people of Markenfield".[2]

Markington is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Markington with Wallerthwaite. Wallerthwaite is a deserted medieval village just south of Markington. Markington with Wallerthwaite was historically a township in the parish of Ripon, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. It absorbed the civil parish of Ingerthorpe in 1937.[3] Markington was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.[4]

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Markington with Wallerthwaite Parish (E04007384)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). "Markington". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557.
  3. "Markington With Wallerthwaite CP/Tn". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. "History of Markington, in Harrogate and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

54.0816°N 1.5574°W / 54.0816; -1.5574



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