Lillings Ambo

Coordinates: 54°04′01″N 1°00′40″W / 54.067°N 1.011°W / 54.067; -1.011
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Lillings Ambo
Civil parish
A rural street with house on the left, and hedges and trees on the right
West Lilling village street
Lillings Ambo is located in North Yorkshire
Lillings Ambo
Lillings Ambo
Location within North Yorkshire
Population150 (2015)[1]
OS grid referenceSE645638
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townYORK
Postcode districtYO60
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°04′01″N 1°00′40″W / 54.067°N 1.011°W / 54.067; -1.011

Lillings Ambo is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is between the villages of Strensall and Sheriff Hutton, and its southern edge is the border between the unitary authorities of North Yorkshire Council and the City of York Council. The River Foss flows through the parish, and in 2020, a scheme was approved to build a leaky dam to store water in the south of the parish in times of flood.

History[edit]

The civil parish has the village of West Lilling, and areas to the south known as Lilling Green.[2] The first part of the name derives from Old English of Lillingas, meaning the place of Lilla's people.[3] The suffix Ambo, also seen in the nearby parish of Huttons Ambo, is a Latin term usually denoting that the parish is made up of two villages sharing a common name: West and East Lilling (or Lillings Both).[4][5] West and East Lilling were both mentioned in the Domesday Book[6][7] with East Lilling being recorded as completely depopulated by 1625, though probably, most inhabitants had left by 1485.[8] The fields in the parish, especially those around West Lilling were enclosed by 1769.[9]

The village of West Lilling consists of around 45 buildings, but the old village of East Lilling is now in the civil parish of Sheriff Hutton, although two listed buildings in the Lillings Ambo parish are labelled as East Lilling.[10][11][12][13] The village of West Lilling is some 0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of Sheriff Hutton, and 9 miles (14 km) north of York.[14]

Land within the parish is largely agricultural, with various ponds acting as a good reserve for great crested newts, one of a handful of sites in Ryedale where they still thrive.[15] The River Foss flows through the parish (from west to south-east) and in the 18th century, the river was canalised in an effort to make it navigable to Sheriff Hutton Bridge (which despite its name, is in the parish of Lillings Ambo).[16][17][18] The meandering of the river before it was canalised, allowed for it to be forded in several places in the parish.[19] In 2020, a leaky dam water storage project was approved for 151 acres (61 ha) of land surrounding the river in the south of the parish.[20][21][22] The scheme would see a 1.03-mile (1.65 km) long bund being built with a concrete substructure which would trap the floodwater, and release it slowly at a rate of 350 cubic feet per second (10 m3/s).[23][20] The scheme is designed to protect almost 500 properties downstream, with work due to be finished by September 2023.[24][25]

The long-distance walks, the Centenary Way, the Ebor Way, and the Foss Walk, all pass through the Lillings Ambo.[26] The nearest railway station used to be at Flaxton on the York to Scarborough line, however this closed in 1930, and the nearest railway station is now in York.[27][28]

Local authority[edit]

Lillings Ambo was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Sheriff Hutton in the 19th century, which itself, was part of the wapentake of Bulmer.[29] The population in the late 1830s was recorded as 197.[30] It was additionally within one of the York poor law unions (Flaxton District),[31][32] and was created as civil parish in 1866, later coming under the Flaxton Rural District.[33][34]

Between 1974 and 2023 the parish was part of the Ryedale district. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council and is part of the Sheriff Hutton & Derwent ward for electoral purposes.[35]

The southern edge of the parish, shares a border with the City of York Unitary Authority boundary.[36][37]

In 2001 the population of the parish was 147, which had risen to 158 at the 2011 census.[38][39] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 150.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Lilling Green". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  3. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 298. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  4. ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  5. ^ Beresford, M. W. (1951). "The Lost Villages of Medieval England". The Geographical Journal. 117 (2). London: The Royal Geographical Society: 141. doi:10.2307/1791650. JSTOR 1791650. OCLC 173997104.
  6. ^ "[West] Lilling | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  7. ^ "[East] Lilling | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  8. ^ "East Lilling". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Parishes: Sheriff Hutton | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  10. ^ Day, Colin. "West Lilling" (PDF). colinday.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  11. ^ Beresford, M. W. (1971). History on the ground; six studies in maps and landscapes. London: Methuen. p. 225. ISBN 0-416-15130-2.
  12. ^ Historic England. "East Lilling Farmhouse (Grade II) (1149619)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  13. ^ Historic England. "East Lilling Grange (Grade II) (1173388)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Genuki: Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  15. ^ Minting, Stuart (15 February 2021). "Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to create habitat for endangered newts on farm in Ryedale". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Foss at Sheriff Hutton Bridge". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022. Use the slider to toggle between mapping and satellite imagery - the course of the river can be still be seen on the fields
  17. ^ "Foss History | The River Foss Society". riverfosssociety.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  18. ^ "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  19. ^ Hopkinson, G; Tyler, D (1999). "BPTSEP 169: West Lilling. Archaeological Evaluation". On-Site Archaeology: 5. doi:10.5284/1029308.
  20. ^ a b Laversuch, Chloe (12 December 2019). "Floodwater storage plan for York could protect almost 500 homes in the city". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  21. ^ "Plans for York flood storage area approved by planning chiefs". GOV.UK. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  22. ^ "Alleviation scheme for the River Foss" (PDF). democracy.ryedale.gov.uk/. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  23. ^ "River Foss Flood Storage Area" (PDF). democracy.ryedale.gov.uk/. November 2019. p. 8. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  24. ^ "Foss Storage Area" (PDF). consult.environment-agency.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  25. ^ Laycock, Mike (11 October 2021). "Two more years until flood storage scheme is built to protect York". York Press. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  26. ^ "300" (Map). Howardian Hills & Malton. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978-0-319- 24552-1.
  27. ^ Hoole, K. (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 164. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
  28. ^ "West Lilling postcode - Postcode by address". postcodebyaddress.co.uk/. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  29. ^ "The wapentake of Bulmer | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  30. ^ White, William (1840). History, gazetteer, and directory, of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire. Sheffield: White. p. 418. OCLC 1116958278.
  31. ^ "Genuki: SHERIFF HUTTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890., Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  32. ^ Directory of the City of York and neighbourhood. York: Johnson & Tesseyman. 1872. p. 364. OCLC 315574024.
  33. ^ "Lillings Ambo CP/Tn". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  34. ^ "Flaxton Rural District Council". The York Herald. No. 14913. Column C. 25 March 1899. p. 14. OCLC 877360086.
  35. ^ "Find a councillor". North Yorkshire Council. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  36. ^ "City of York Council - MapIt". mapit.mysociety.org. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  37. ^ "The North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  38. ^ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Lillings Ambo Parish (36UF066)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  39. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lillings Ambo Parish (E04007601)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 May 2022.

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