Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 54.0398°N -0.8358°W |
Label Position: | left |
Official Name: | Leppington |
Static Image: | Poplar House Farm, Leppington - geograph.org.uk - 2012075.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Poplar House Farm |
Civil Parish: | Scrayingham |
Unitary England: | North Yorkshire |
Lieutenancy England: | North Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Constituency Westminster: | Thirsk and Malton |
Post Town: | MALTON |
Postcode District: | YO17 |
Postcode Area: | YO |
Os Grid Reference: | SE763610 |
London Distance Mi: | 175 |
London Direction: | S |
Leppington is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Scrayingham, in North Yorkshire, England, and is 12miles north-east from the centre of the city and county town of York. In 1931 the parish had a population of 74.[1]
The nearest railway station is at Malton, 7miles to the north.
At the north of Leppington is the Grade II listed 17th-century Leppington Grange Barn.
Historically the hamlet was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. Leppington in 1823 was in the Wapentake of Buckrose in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[2]
Leppington was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Scrayingham,[3] from 1866 Leppington was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Scrayingham.[4] From 1974 to 2023 it was in Ryedale district.