Middlesmoor

Middlesmoor

Part of the village opposite the Crown Inn
Middlesmoor

 Middlesmoor shown within North Yorkshire
Population 40 
OS grid reference SE092741
Parish Stonebeck Up
District Harrogate
Shire county North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HARROGATE
Postcode district HG3
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Middlesmoor is a small hill village at the head of Nidderdale in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England.

The place name was first mentioned in the 12th century. It probably means "moorland in the middle of two streams" referring to the River Nidd and its tributary How Stean Beck.[1] An alternative explanation is that the name comes from an otherwise unrecorded personal name, Midele, also seen in the name of Middlesbrough.[2]

Middlesmoor is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Stonebeck Up, historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malzeard.

References

  1. ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Middlesmoor", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press 
  2. ^ Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. 

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