Markington
Markington is a village in the Harrogate District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. 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 place of worship, two pubs and a camp site.
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.[1]
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Coordinates: 54°04′54″N 1°33′27″W / 54.0816°N 1.5574°W