Burton Salmon

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Coordinates: 53°44′29″N 1°15′19″W / 53.74140°N 1.25540°W / 53.74140; -1.25540
Burton Salmon
Burton Salmon

 Burton Salmon shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE492274
Civil parish Burton Salmon
District Selby
Shire county North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LEEDS
Postcode district LS25
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
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Burton Salmon is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with West Yorkshire, and about three miles north of Knottingley, on the A162 road. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 419.

The village has a primary school, Burton Salmon School.[1] There is also a public house, The Plough Inn, dating from the 17th century,[2] and a Methodist chapel.

Ledgate Lane, Burton Salmon

Toponymy

The place name "Burton Salmon" is formed of two elements. The first originates in Old English and translates as "farmstead of the Britons" (Brettas, genitive Bretta) plus the word tūn, meaning "farmstead, village, settlement". The second element, "Salmon" is a manorial affix, derived from the name Salamone, that of a man who held lands in the area in the 13th century. Although not mentioned in the Domesday Book, the village was recorded as Brettona circa 1160, before the name of the estate holder was appended, and again as Burton Salamon in 1516.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Burton Salmon School website.
  2. ↑ The Plough Inn Information, thebestof.co.uk.
  3. ↑ 'Oxford Dictionary of British Place-Names', A.D. Mills, Oxford University Press.

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