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Ainderby Quernhow

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Black Horse, Ainderby Quernhow.jpg
static_image_caption	The Black Horse, Ainderby Quernhow
coordinates
official_name	Ainderby Quernhow
population	70
population_ref	(2014)
unitary_england	North Yorkshire
lieutenancy_england	North Yorkshire
region	Yorkshire and the Humber
post_town	THIRSK
postcode_district	YO7
postcode_area	YO
os_grid_reference	SE347809

Ainderby Quernhow is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the B6267 Thirsk to Masham road just east of the A1(M) and is about five miles west of Thirsk. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2014.

The Quernhow at Ainderby is a small mound on the nearby Roman Road which marked the boundary between the parishes of Ainderby and Middleton Quernhow. The mound at Ainderby Quernhow was demolished to make way for the upgrading of the A1(M) and its history is commemorated in a stone laid down in the grounds of the Quernhow Café which now adjoins the A6055.

Ainderby Mires and Ainderby Steeple are also in the district, the latter refers to the local church spire, the former to marshy mires.

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Ainderby is a place name originally meant village belonging to Eindrithi, a Viking whose name meant 'sole-ruler'. Quernhow, which has also been spelled Whernhowe and Whernou means mill-hill. The first element derives from the Old Norse word * kvern* meaning a mill stone. How, deriving from the Old Norse word * haugr *, means a hill. How is a common element in Yorkshire place names but rare in County Durham.

Popular culture

Ainderby Quernhow is twice mentioned in popular culture; once in Douglas Adams' The Meaning of Liff (as a word describing those who claim to miss using the word 'gay' in its historical sense) and by The Independent as sounding like an actor who 'specializes in playing vacuous tennis-playing aristocrats.'

References

"B6267 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki".
(2014). "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council.
(21 November 2012). "Ancient Quernhow monument commemorated". The Northern Echo.
"Yorkshire Place-Names A to D".
(2015). "Yorkshire and its origins". Lulu.
[http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsAtoD.html Yorkshire Place-Name Meanings]
(15 October 2012). "Douglas Adams's Meaning of Liff redefined". The Guardian.
(22 August 2015). "The Top Ten: Places as old-school repertory actors". The Independent.

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