Flasby Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:54.006°N -2.0839°W
Official Name:Flasby
Civil Parish:Flasby with Winterburn
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituency Westminster:Skipton and Ripon
Population:207
Population Ref:(Including Calton and Eshton. 2011 census)
Post Town:SKIPTON
Postcode District:BD23
Postcode Area:BD
Dial Code:01756
Os Grid Reference:SD946566
Static Image:Flasby - geograph.org.uk - 173730.jpg

Flasby is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the two settlements, with Winterburn, in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn, part of the Craven district. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 80 in 2012,[1] measured at 207 in the 2011 Census.

Flasby was first mentioned, as Flatebi, in the Domesday Book of 1086. The toponym is of Old Norse origin, meaning "the farmstead of a man called Flat" (the same origin as Flaxby).[2]

Flasby with Winterburn was a township in the ancient parish of Gargrave in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[3] It became a separate civil parish in 1866,[4] and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.

Flasby Hall is a large house built in 1843–44 and a Grade II listed building. In 1848 the Flasby Sword, an Iron Age sword and scabbard, was discovered in the grounds. It is now in the Craven Museum & Gallery in Skipton.[5]

Freddie Trueman, the Yorkshire cricketer, lived in the village for many years.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: North Yorkshire County Council. Population Estimates. 2012. 25 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0. 13 January 2012.
  2. Book: Smith, A. H.. Albert Hugh Smith

    . Albert Hugh Smith. The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 6. Cambridge University Press. 1961. 48.

  3. Web site: GENUKI: Gargrave Supplementary . genuki.org.uk. 16 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Flasby With Winterburn CP/Tn through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit | Vision of Britain website . visionofbritain.org.uk. 16 January 2017.
  5. Web site: The Flasby Sword. Craven Museum and Gallery. 25 May 2015.
  6. News: Lockwood . Ian . The fire goes out on an adopted Dalesman . 4 April 2019 . The Craven Herald & Pioneer . 7 July 2006.