Little Busby Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:54.4402°N -1.2168°W
Official Name:Little Busby
Population:20
Civil Parish:Little Busby
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Post Town:MIDDLESBROUGH
Postcode District:TS9
Postcode Area:TS
Os Grid Reference:NZ5078605274

Little Busby is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors and Stokesley. It is pronounced little 'Buzz - Bee'.[1] The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2013.[2]

Busby Hall is a country house, possibly built after a fire of 1764. It is constructed from finely-coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone with a Lakeland slate roof in 2 storeys to an L-shaped floorplan and has a 5 bay frontage. The building is grade II* listed.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pointon . G E . BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names . 1990 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 0-19-282745-6 . 40 . 2.
  2. Web site: North Yorkshire County Council. Population Estimates. 2013. 22 April 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0. 13 January 2012. In the 2011 Census the population of the parish was included with the parishes of Great Busby and Carlton, and not separately counted.