Flasby

Flasby
Flasby
Flasby shown within North Yorkshire
Population 207 (Including Calton and Eshton. 2011)
OS grid reference SD946566
Civil parish
  • Flasby with Winterburn
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SKIPTON
Postcode district BD23
Dialling code 01756
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament

Flasby is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the two settlements, with Winterburn, in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn, part of the Craven district. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 80 in 2012,[1] measured at 212 in the 2011 Census.[2]

Flasby was first mentioned, as Flatebi, in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3] The toponym is of Old Norse origin, meaning "the farmstead of a man called Flat" (the same origin as Flaxby).[4]

Flasby with Winterburn was a township in the ancient parish of Gargrave in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[5] It became a separate civil parish in 1866.,[6] and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.

Flasby Hall is a large house built in 1843–44 and a Grade II listed building.[7] In 1848 the Flasby Sword, an Iron Age sword and scabbard, was discovered in the grounds. It is now in the Craven Museum & Gallery in Skipton.[8]

Freddie Trueman, the Yorkshire cricketer, lived in the village for many years.

References

  1. ↑ "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office forNational Statistics. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Flasby in the Domesday Book
  4. ↑ Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 6. Cambridge University Press. p. 48.
  5. ↑ "GENUKI: Gargrave Supplementary". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Flasby With Winterburn CP/Tn through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit | Vision of Britain website". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (323942)". Images of England. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Flasby Sword". Craven Museum and Gallery. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

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