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Spaunton is a hamlet and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 the civil parish had a population of less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Lastingham.[1] It is situated near Lastingham and about 5 miles (8 km) north west of Pickering.[2] The name Spaunton derives from Old Norse and means a farmstead or settlement which had shingle roofs.[3]

Spaunton

Spaunton village
Spaunton
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE722899
Civil parish
  • Spaunton
District
  • Ryedale
Shire county
  • North Yorkshire
Region
  • Yorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townYORK
Postcode districtYO62
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
  • Thirsk and Malton (formerly Ryedale)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54.299795°N 0.890640°W / 54.299795; -0.890640

Spaunton is still the setting for a Court Leet. The court meets annually in October an decides on matters of encroachment onto the common land in the village and hands down fines to offenders. The full title of the court is the Manor of Spaunton Court Leet and Court Baron with View of Frankpledge.[4]

Just after 9:00 pm on the 7 October 1943, a Lancaster bomber of No. 408 Squadron RCAF from RAF Linton-on-Ouse crashed into the village with a full load of ordnance. One of the bombs exploded and killed a civilian from the village, George Strickland, as he went to see what the noise was about. He is buried in Lastingham graveyard.[5]


References


  1. "Area: Lastingham (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 14 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  2. "100" (Map). Whitby & Pickering. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261989.
  3. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 433. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  4. Rhea, Nicholas (22 January 2016). "When sheep were big business". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. "Lancaster DS724 at Spaunton village". www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2017.



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