North Rigton
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". North Rigton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is Script error: No such module "convert". south of Harrogate. The population of the parish was 460 in 2011.[1] Almscliffe Crag adjacent to the village was used for scenery at the end of Yorkshire Television dramas, The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection. The area was never referred to by name.
Until the 19th century the village was known as Rigton,[2] the official name of the parish until 1962.[3] "North" was added to distinguish the place from East Rigton, Script error: No such module "convert". southeast.[4] The name is from the Old English hrycg and tūn, meaning "farmstead on the ridge". The place was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Riston, an Anglo-Norman spelling of the name.[5]
The village was historically a township in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2] It became a separate civil parish in 1866,[3] and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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- ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics, Census 2011
- ↑ a b Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England (1835) cited on GENUKI
- ↑ a b Vision of Britain website
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