Exelby

Village in North Yorkshire, England

Human settlement in England

Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry

Unitary authority

North Yorkshire

Ceremonial county

North Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

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List of places: UK; England; Yorkshire

54°16′42″N 1°32′55″W / 54.278229°N 1.548630°W / 54.278229; -1.548630

Exelby is a village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Bedale and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the A1(M) motorway and is part of the civil parish of Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry. The civil parish had a total of 2,788 residents at the time of the 2011 census,^[1] though Exelby had only 80 homes.^[2] The name of the village derives from Old Danish or Old Norse and means Eskil's farm or Eskil's settlement.^[3]

In the 1086 Domesday Book Exelby is noted as Aschilebi, with only one man but 20 ploughlands, and in the North Riding's Land of Count Alan. In 1066 Merleswein the Sheriff was Lord of the Manor, which by 1086 had been transferred to Robert of Moutiers, with Count Alan of Brittany as Tenant-in-chief.^[4]^[5]

The village lies on the B6285, which connects Bedale with Exelby, Theakston, Burneston and the A6055 road just east of Burneston.^[6]

In October 2018 the residents of the village, along with other community investors, bought the closed village pub, The Green Dragon. It was revamped and renamed Exelby Green Dragon (EGD), reopening in December 2018. Since then a deli-cafe, high quality letting rooms and a lottery funded community garden (incorporating the pub garden) have been added. The pub also acts as a community hub, accommodating local groups and serving as a base for a folk club.^[7]

References

^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Exelby, Leeming and Newton Parish (1170216837)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ Barnett, Ben (2 June 2018). "Exelby village has bid accepted for Green Dragon pub". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 171. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
^ "Exelby", Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2012
^ "Documents Online: Exelby, Yorkshire", Great Domesday Book, Folios: 381r, 313r; The National Archives. Retrieved 16 June 2012
^ "302" (Map). Northallerton & Thirsk. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319245545.
^ Barnard, Ashley (5 October 2018). "Village pub is saved by residents". The Northern Echo. p. 6. ISSN 2043-0442.