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Levisham is a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park about 5 miles (8 km) north of Pickering. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Lockton.

Levisham
Levisham
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE833905
Civil parish
  • Levisham
District
  • Ryedale
Shire county
  • North Yorkshire
Region
  • Yorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPICKERING
Postcode districtYO18
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
  • Thirsk and Malton (formerly Ryedale)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54.303840°N 0.720930°W / 54.303840; -0.720930

History


The village is recorded as a very small settlement in the Domesday Book of 1086.[1] The name of the village was first recorded in 1086 as Leuecen, and it derives from Old Norse, meaning the farmstead of Leofgeat's people.[2][3] The village is believed to have moved location due to the Black Death in the 14th century.[4] The Church of St Mary, a grade II* listed building which dates to the 11th century, is now isolated from the current village,[5] and is thought to mark the site of a Deserted Medieval Village.[6] The church fell into disuse in the 1950s, though burials continue, and the main place of Anglican worship is the Church of St John the Baptist, which is in Levisham village, some 2,600 feet (800 m) away from St Mary's.[7]


Locations


It has a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.[8] Nearby villages include Newton-on-Rawcliffe and Lockton.


Demographics


At the 2011 census, details were recorded with the parish of Lockton,[9] however, an estimate by North Yorkshire County Council in 2015 stated that the population was 70.[10]


Miscellaneous


Heartbeat actress Lisa Kay (nurse Carol Cassidy) is from Levisham.[11] In April 2021 the village was used as a filming location for the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One film.[12]


References


  1. "Levisham | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  2. "Levisham :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  3. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  4. Bagshaw, Mike (2014). Slow Yorkshire Moors & Wolds : including York & the coast. Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-84162-548-5.
  5. "A view looking down onto St Mary's Church, now isolated from the village of Levisham, but thought by local legend to be all that remains of an earlier village wiped out by plague in medieval times (AA083569) Archive Item - John Gay Collection". Historic England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  6. Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1280303)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  7. Hall, R. A.; Lang, J. T. (1986). "St Mary's Church, Levisham, North Yorkshire". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society. 58: 58. ISSN 0084-4276.
  8. Kelman, Leanne (2020). Railway Track Diagrams; Book 2 - Eastern. Frome: Trackmaps. 48D. ISBN 978-1-9996271-3-3.
  9. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lockton Parish (E04007602)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  10. "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  11. "Lisa's home advantage". Manchester Evening News. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  12. "Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible scenes in Yorkshire". BBC News. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.


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