Markington

Markington is a village in the Harrogate District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 329.[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 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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Vision of Britain website

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Coordinates: 54°04′54″N 1°33′27″W / 54.0816°N 1.5574°W / 54.0816; -1.5574


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