Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.9305°N -1.4487°W |
Civil Parish: | Sicklinghall |
Official Name: | Sicklinghall |
Population: | 336 |
Population Ref: | (2011 census) |
Unitary England: | North Yorkshire |
Lieutenancy England: | North Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Constituency Westminster: | Selby with Ainsty |
Post Town: | WETHERBY |
Postcode District: | LS22 |
Postcode Area: | LS |
Dial Code: | 01937 |
Os Grid Reference: | SE363484 |
Static Image: | Sicklinghall Village Hall (9th August 2017) 002.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Sicklinghall village hall |
Static Image 2 Name: | Pond to the east of Sicklinghall (9th August 2017) 001.jpg |
Static Image 2 Caption: | Pond to the east of Sicklinghall; there is another one to the west. |
Sicklinghall is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is situated between the town of Wetherby (3miles to the east) and the village of Kirkby Overblow.
In 2007 the population was recorded as 300,[1] increasing to 336 at the 2011 Census.
The village is surrounded by granges; on the eastern side lie Skerry Grange and Sicklinghall Grange and on the western Addlethorpe Grange. Sicklinghall Grange is set in a 107acres estate, it is the UK residence of racehorse owner, Sir Robert Ogden.[2] However the 'big house' is Stockeld Park, a Grade I-listed palladian villa that sits at the heart of a 2,000-acre estate and is home to the Grant family.
The village is referred to in the Domesday Book as "Sidingale", in the hundred of Burghshire in the West Riding, and the lord and tenant in chief is noted as the King.[3] In Kirkby's Inquest (1284-5) the village is referred to as Siclinghalle; in the Knights' Fees of 1302 it is Sykelynghall, and in the Nomina Villarum (1316) it is written Sigglinghall.[4]
There has been a school in the village of Sicklinghall since at least 1850 when Mrs Fenton Scott of Woodhall built a single storey school house.[5]
There is a Roman Catholic convent situated by the Church of the Immaculate Conception and monastery dating from 1852 to the south of the village.
The village has two churches; St Peter's (Church of England),[6] and the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic). There is a pub called The Scott's Arms,[7] a primary school and a village hall. There are ponds at either end of the village.
Sicklinghall has a range of equestrian-related centres in and around the village's centre, with the Sicklinghall Park livery located in the village centre, and Hill Croft Farm Riding Stables located about 0.6miles west of the village on the road towards Kirkby Overblow.
Sicklinghall has a cricket team playing in the local Wetherby Cricket League. The ground is situated at the top of the village, the club having moved from nearby Stockeld Park in 2002. In 2016 an arson attack on the cricket club destroyed the pavilion.[8]
Former Leeds United and Aston Villa manager David O'Leary is a resident of Sicklinghall.[9]