Saxton with Scarthingwell explained

Official Name:Saxton with Scarthingwell
Type:Civil parish
Country:England
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Static Image Name:Crossroads near Scarthingwell, Barkston Ash - geograph.org.uk - 151414.jpg
Static Image Alt:The crossroads in the middle of the parish with the main A162 road running from the distance into the foreground
Static Image Caption:Crossroads near Scarthingwell
Area Total Sq Mi:5.9
Area Footnotes:(2011 Census)
Population:592
Population Ref:(2011 Census)
Os Grid Reference:SE491371
Coordinates:53.829°N -1.27°W
Label Position:top
Post Town:TADCASTER
Postcode Area:LS
Postcode District:LS24
Dial Code:01937
Constituency Westminster:Selby and Ainsty
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire

Saxton with Scarthingwell is a civil parish just south of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, England. The parish contains the villages of Saxton and Scarthingwell, with two churches and the remains of a castle. Historically the area was a township, however it has been its own civil parish since 1866. Although the main part of the Battle of Towton was fought to the north out of the parish, some of the dead were interred in the parish, and at least one minor skirmish was fought within the parish boundaries.

History

Saxton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having a church, meadow and ploughlands, but Scarthingwell is not recorded as a name until 1202.[1] [2] Land in the parish was granted to Margaret Kirkton by Alice de Lacy in the late 13th century. The Church of St Mary in Lead was founded in 1292 by Roger de Saxton. The church, now known as a chapel, still exists, and though at times Lead was within the parish of Saxton with Scarthingwell (having been transferred from Ryther), it is now in its own civil parish.[3]

The churchyard at Saxton contains at least one burial from the Battle of Towton who was interred after the battle – Randolph Dacre, who had been MP for Cumberland in 1442.[4] Dacre fought on the side of the Lancastrians.[5] Other bodies were interred at Saxton in 1745 (nearly 300 years later) when they were uncovered at the Towton battlefield site.[6] Before the Battle of Towton, the Yorkist side advanced towards Towton Dale from the south, moving through the Saxton parish.[7] In 2018, the boundaries of the battlefield were extended to also take in land within the Saxton parish. The site is recognised by Historic England as being of national importance.[8]

The parish is the site of the smaller conflict of the Battle of Dintingdale, a minor fight on the same day as the Battle of Towton. Lord Clifford, fighting for the Lancastrian side, was killed at Dintingdale. The Battles of Ferrybridge, Dintingdale and Towton, were all held on the same day, but because of the casualties at Towton, it eclipses the other two.[9] [10] Historically, Towton was within the parish boundaries, and Saxton and Scarthingwell were a township in the parish.[11] [12]

The A162 road cuts through the parish on a north/south axis and connects the parish with Tadcaster in the north, and Sherburn-in-Elmet to the south.[13] [14] Three bus routes totalling eight services per day connect the parish with Tadcaster and Sherburn.[15] [16] [17] The nearest railway station is, some 5km (03miles) to the east.[18]

Although now delisted from the main works, a section of the proposed HS2 railway line to was projected to run through the far south-eastern corner of the parish.[19] [20]

Saxton Castle

The village holds the site of Saxton Castle, an 11th-century motte and bailey design, which has been damaged by being built upon since its demise.

Scarthingwell Hall

The hall was built in the 18th century for the Hawke family with landscaping following in the same century.[21] [22] Later, in 1854, a private Chapel was erected by the lake which became the Church of the Immaculate Conception St John the Worker, a grade II listed building. Scarthingwell Hall was demolished in 1960, and a care home was built upon the site in 2022.[23] [24]

Governance

Historically, the parish was in the wapentake of Barkston Ash, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Since 1974, the parish has been in North Yorkshire, and until April 2023, it was in the former Selby District.[25] The ancient parish of Saxton included the village of Towton and the land within what is now the civil parish of Lead. Saxton and Scarthingwell were classified as a township within the parish.[26] [27] Since 1866, it has been established as its own civil parish. In 1964, the parish covered an area of 1101ha, which by the 2011 Census was 1527ha. The area is represented at Parliament as part of the Selby and Ainsty Constituency.[28]

Population of Saxton with Scarthingwell 1801–2015[29] [30] [31] [32] [33] !1801!1811!1821!1831!1841!1851!1861!1871!1881!1891!1901!1911!1921!1931!1951!1961!1971!2001!2011!2015!2019
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  1. Web site: Saxton Domesday Book . opendomesday.org . 16 June 2023.
  2. Web site: Scarthingwell :: Survey of English Place-Names . epns.nottingham.ac.uk . 16 June 2023.
  3. Web site: Parish records of Saxton – Archives Hub . archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk . 27 June 2023.
  4. Lowther Bouch . J. . A note on the tombstone of Ranulph Lord de Dacre of Gillesland in Saxton churchyard, Yorkshire. . Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society . 2017 . 16 . 228 . 10.5284/1063614.
  5. Book: Cokayne . 1916 . Gibbs . Doubleday . G.E. . Vicary . H.A. . . 4 . 2 . amp . St. Catherine Press . London . George Edward Cokayne . Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP). 18. 61913642.
  6. Web site: Blood Red Roses: The archaeology of a mass grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461 Edited by Veronica Fiorato, Anthea Boylston and Christopher Knüsel . archaeologydataservice.ac.uk . 16 June 2023.
  7. Book: Page . William . The Victoria history of the county of York. vol 3 . 1907 . Constable & Co . London . 429. 500092527.
  8. News: Kitchen . Ruby . Why site of key battle is far more than a shrine to history . The Yorkshire Post . 9 April 2018 . 3. 0963-1496.
  9. Sutherland . Tim . Killing Time: Challenging the Perceptions of Three Medieval Conflicts – Ferrybridge, Dintingdale, and Towton . Journal of Conflict Archaeology . June 2009 . 5 . 1 . 1–26 . Taylor & Francis . 10.1163/157407709X12634580640173 . 159544440 . 1574-0773.
  10. Book: Clifford . Arthur . Collectanea Cliffordiana . 1980 . 1817 . Skipton Castle Publications . Skipton . 0950697508 . 73.
  11. Book: Kelly's Directory of West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881. [Part 2: Places L-Y] . 1881 . Kelly's . London . 992. 1131686669.
  12. Web site: Sawbridgeworth – Saxton British History Online . www.british-history.ac.uk . 23 June 2023.
  13. Web site: Genuki: SAXTON, Yorkshire (West Riding) . genuki.org.uk . 16 June 2023.
  14. News: Oxley . Chris . Ride like the wind.... but check it first . The Yorkshire Post . 24 June 2023 . Country Week . 30. 0963-1496.
  15. Web site: 492 – Wetherby – Sherburn in Elmet . bustimes.org . 16 June 2023.
  16. Web site: 494 – Ulleskelf – Sherburn . bustimes.org . 16 June 2023.
  17. Web site: 495 – Tadcaster Bus Station – Selby Bus Station . bustimes.org . 16 June 2023.
  18. Web site: Scarthingwell Crescent postcode in Saxton . postcodebyaddress.co.uk . 16 June 2023.
  19. Web site: High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: Community Area report . assets.publishing.service.gov.uk . 16 June 2023 . 6 . October 2018.
  20. News: Topham . Gwyn . HS2 rail leg to Leeds scrapped, Grant Shapps confirms . 16 June 2023 . The Guardian . 18 November 2021.
  21. Web site: Scarthingwell Hall – Saxton . parksandgardens.org . January 1969 . 23 June 2023 . en.
  22. Web site: Scarthingwell West Riding . visionofbritain.org.uk . 24 June 2023.
  23. Web site: Scarthingwell Hall 1930 . tadhistory.org.uk . 24 June 2023.
  24. News: Wright . Greg . Work begins on £9m 66-bed luxury care home in picturesque North Yorkshire village . 24 June 2023 . The Yorkshire Post . 25 March 2022.
  25. News: Cooper . Joe . Final farewell as Selby councillors hold last ever meeting . 16 June 2023 . York Press . 23 March 2023.
  26. Web site: Genuki: Saxton, Yorkshire (West Riding) . www.genuki.org.uk . 16 June 2023.
  27. Book: Sheahan . J. J. . Whellan . T. . History and topography of the City of York: the Ainsty Wapentake and the East Riding of Yorkshire . 1855 . John Green . Beverley . 680. 473523946.
  28. Web site: Election Maps . ordnancesurvey.co.uk . 16 June 2023.
  29. Book: Page . William . The Victoria history of the county of York. vol 3 . 1907 . Constable & Co . London . 528. 500092527.
  30. Web site: Saxton With Scarthingwell Tn/CP . visionofbritain.org.uk . 16 June 2023.
  31. Web site: 2015 Population Estimates Parishes . northyorks.gov.uk . 16 June 2023. 18 . December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf. 4 June 2022. dead.
  32. Book: Census 1971 England and Wales: report for the county of North Yorkshire as constituted on 1st April 1974 / Office of population censuses and surveys . 1976 . HMSO . London . 0-11-690454-2 . 5.
  33. Web site: Parish population estimates for mid–2001 to mid–2019 based on best-fitting of output areas to parishes – Office for National Statistics . ons.gov.uk . 16 June 2023 . Excel . 8 October 2020.
  34. W. M. P.. Courtney. Crowe, William. 6827. 23 September 2004.
  35. Hellier . Rachel . Hutton . Barbara . A Model Farm at Scarthingwell near York in 1793 and in 1986 . The Agricultural History Review . 1987 . 35 . 1 . 72 . British Agricultural History Society . 0002-1490.
  36. Alexander. Lock. Gascoigne, Sir Thomas, eighth baronet. 105370. 23 September 2004.

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