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Beningbrough

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Summary

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
label_position	top
official_name	Beningbrough
civil_parish	Beningbrough
unitary_england	North Yorkshire
lieutenancy_england	North Yorkshire
region	Yorkshire and the Humber
post_town	YORK
postcode_district	YO30
postcode_area	YO
os_grid_reference	SE529577
london_distance_mi	175
london_direction	SSE

Beningbrough is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Shipton, North Yorkshire.

Beningbrough village is 6 mi north-west from York city centre. The parish, which includes Beningbrough Hall and Park, is bordered at the south-west by the River Ouse, historically the border between the North Riding and West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2001 Census, parish population was 55.

Beningbrough is within the ecclesiastical parish of Shipton with Overton. The parish church of Holy Evangelists is at Shipton by Beningbrough.

Beningbrough is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Benniburg", meaning a "stronghold associated with a man called 'Beonna'", being an Old English person name. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Beningbrough was in the Bulford Hundred of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement contained five households and five villagers, with one-and-a-half ploughlands, three furlongs of woodland, and six acres of meadow. In 1066, Asfrith was lord, this transferred to Ralph in 1086, with Hugh fitzBaldric becoming tenant-in-chief to king William I.

In 1870 Beningbrough was a township in the parish of Newton-on-Ouse, containing 88 people in 15 houses within an area of 1070 acre, and in 1877, 74 people in 1092 acre."Beningbrough North Riding", A Vision of Britain through Time, Great Britain Historical GIS, quoting: John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72), and John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887). Retrieved 30 March 2015 From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Beningbrough railway station was the first station out of York on the main line to Newcastle. The station opened on the GNER line in 1841; closed to passengers in 1958, and to freight in 1965.

The racehorse Beningbrough, winner of the 1794 St Leger Stakes, was named after the village.

References

"Gazetteer of British Place Names".
[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/shipton-holy-evangelist/ "Holy Evangelists, Shipton by Beningbrough"], [[Church of England]]. Retrieved 30 March 2015
Mills, Anthony David (2003); ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', [[Oxford University Press]], revised edition (2011), p. 53. {{ISBN. 019960908X
[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE5257/beningbrough/ "Beningbrough"] {{Webarchive. link. (2 April 2015 , ''Open Domesday'', [[University of Hull]]. Retrieved 30 March 2015)
Morris, Joseph E. ''The North Riding of Yorkshire'', [[Methuen Publishing. London Methuen & Co.]] (1904) p. 66.
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Whyte, James Christie. (1840). "History of the British turf: from the earliest period to the present day". Henry Colburn.

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