Boltby

Boltby

Boltby

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Boltby is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the North York Moors National Park at 460 feet (140 m), and about six miles (9.7 km) north-east of Thirsk. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 143.[1]

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There are nine grade II listed structures in Boltby including a bridge over Gurtof Beck.[2] Ravensthorpe Manor House, built in the mid 19th century, is situate 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the village.[3][4]

History

Boltby, 2014

Boltby is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Boltebi in the Yalestre hundred. After the Norman invasion, the land was owned by Hugh, son of Baldric. He granted Lordship of the local manor to Gerald of Boltby. Previously the Lord of the manor was Sumarlithi, son of Karli.[5]

Fewer than five new houses have been built in the village in the 20th century, giving a total of 43 in 2005.[citation needed]

The eastern part of the Boltby was affected by flooding in 2005 when Gurtof Beck overflowed and damaged or destroyed buildings. Local reports were of water levels up to 3m deep.[6]

Governance

The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It is part of the Thirsk electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Whitestonecliffe ward of Hambleton District Council.[7]

The parish shares a grouped parish council, known as Hillside Parish Council, with the civil parishes of Cowesby, Felixkirk, Kirby Knowle and Upsall.[8]

Geography

According to the 1881 UK Census, the population was 317.[3] The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 149, of which 124 were over the age of sixteen with 81 in employment. There are 70 dwellings of which 52 are detached.[9] The population at the 2011 Census had reduced slightly to 143.[1]

The low level geology of the area is of Devensian clay on beds of lower Jurassic lias.[6]

The village lies 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west of the Cleveland Way National Trail.

The village is located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south-east of Kirby Knowle; 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north-east of Felixkirk; 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Thirlby and 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Cold Kirby which are the nearest settlements.[7]

Religion

Holy Trinity Church, Boltby

There is one church in the village, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. This present building was constructed c. 1856 on the site of 1409 and 1802 structures.[3] Parish registers date from around 1600.[10]

Ravensthorpe

Remnant of the Medieval moat of Ravensthorpe Castle

About 1.0 mile (1.6 km) south of the village and to the immediate north-west of Tang Hall Farm[11] (also known as Ravensthorpe Mill), is the site of the mediaeval moated castle or fortified manor house[12] of Ravensthorpe,[11] listed three times as a subsidiary manor in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Ravenestorp and Ravenetorp.[13] In 1272 it consisted of a capital messuage and six tofts, with a watermill.[14] The manorial mill survives as Ravensthorpe Mill. William de Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe (1262–1308) signed and sealed the Barons' Letter of 1301 as Willelmus de Cantilupo, Dominus de Ravenesthorp.[15] He had inherited the manor on his second marriage, to Eve de Bolteby, second daughter and co-heiress of Adam de Bolteby of Ravensthorpe and Boltby and of Langley in Northumberland, and widow successively of Alan de Walkingham (d.1283) of Cowthorpe, Yorkshire and Richard Knout (d.1291). Cantilupe's other seats included Greasley in Nottinghamshire; Ilkeston in Derbyshire and Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire. His inquisition post mortem of 1308 records that his manor of Ravensthorpe contained 24 bovates of demesne land; one free tenant; 29 cottars; five bondmen holding four bovates each, and three holding three bovates each. The watermill was worth £5 per annum.[14] In 1362, on the death of Joan (widow of Sir William de Kyme), second wife and widow of Nicholas de Cantilupe, 3rd Baron Cantilupe (d.1355), Ravensthorpe passed under an entail to Sir William de Cantilupe (1344–1375), the younger of the two sons of William de Cantilupe, 4th Baron Cantilupe (1325–1375). On the death of Sir William de Cantilupe in 1375, Ravensthorpe passed to Sir Robert de Ros of Ingmanthorpe, from whom it escheated to the crown in 1377, passing in purparties to William la Zouche the younger and Sir Reynold Grey of Ruthin, in 1390 and 1391 respectively.[16]

Boltby Reservoir

Outlet from former Boltby Reservoir, 2014

Boltby Reservoir is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-west of Boltby village and opened in 1882. It is 14.1 metres (46 ft) deep and covers an area of 3.1 hectares (7.7 acres) collecting water from a catchment area of 3.41 square kilometres (1.32 sq mi).[17]

The reservoir was originally constructed on Ravensthorpe Estate by Thirsk and District Water Company to supply Thirsk, Thirsk railway station, Northallerton railway station and Romanby. Romanby's water flowed through a pipe laid alongside the railway line from Thirsk and was supplied separately from the remainder of Northallerton for many years. Thirsk and District Water Company subsequently enlarged the original reservoir and distribution network of pipes to supply other villages, and the airfields established around Thirsk during World War II.[18]

A 1964 water quality emergency caused by absent filter beds required police be despatched across the supply area warning residents not to drink the unsafe Boltby water. Supply ceased to be drawn from the reservoir and operation / ownership was involuntarily transferred to Ryedale Joint Water Board. As of 2012, remaining operation of the facility is in the hands of Ryedale Joint Water Board's successor, Yorkshire Water.[18][19]

Although now without a public house, the village had four during construction of the reservoir leading to incidents of unrest on site.[18]

A legacy of late 19th century negotiations to construct the reservoir is an obligation upon successor water companies to provide a free water supply in perpetuity to Boltby residents.[18]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Boltby Parish (1170216806)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Grade II Listed Buildings". Archived from the original on 21 March 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. [3]
    Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890. S&N Publishing. 1890. p. 699. ISBN 1-86150-299-0.
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    "Ravensthorpe Hall Listing". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  5. [5]
    Boltby in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  6. [6]
    Yorkshire Geological Society Circular 525 (PDF). 2005. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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    "OpenData support | OS Tools & Support". Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
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    "Hillside Parish Council". Hambleton District Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  9. [9]
    UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Boltby Parish (36UC016)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
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    "Church". Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  11. [11]
    "Felixkirk village Thirsk North Yorkshire Darrowby Herriot". www.thirsk.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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    Historic England. "Ravensthorpe manor house (site of), Boltby, North Yorkshire (1004083)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
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    "Ravensthorpe [Manor] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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    "Ravensthorpe Manor House (site)". wikimapia.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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    Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, , vol.3, p.112
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    Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, , vol.3, p.114, note c
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    Walling, Desmond (1997). Human impact on erosion and sedimentation : proceedings of an international symposium (Symposium S6) held during the Fifth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) at Rabat, Morocco, from 23 April to 3 May 1997. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: IAHS. p. 172. ISBN 1901502309.
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    Eccleston, Bernie (2012). Pumps, Pipes and Purity : The Turbulent Social History of Providing the Public with Enough Safe Water in the Thirsk District and North Yorkshire from 1875. Boltby: Bernie Eccleston. ISBN 978-0957329607.
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    "Long battle for county's water on tap". Darlington & Stockton Times. 23 February 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

Further reading

  • Boltby Millennium Group. Boltby: A History. 2002.
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