Ilton, North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°12′00″N 1°42′36″W / 54.200°N 1.71°W
Ilton is a village in North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles south-west of the small town of Masham. It is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Ilton cum Pott, in Harrogate district. The parish includes Roundhill Reservoir.
The name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Ilcheton, meaning "settlement of a man called Ylca".[1]
Near the village is the Druids' Temple, a replica of Stonehenge built in about 1800 by William Danby of nearby Swinton Park.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Ilton NYorks", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press
- ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (325023)". Images of England.
- ↑ "Druids Temple". Bivouac Swinton. Retrieved 28 November 2014.