West Layton

West Layton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and a few miles west of Darlington.

West Layton

West Layton Manor
West Layton
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceNZ141099
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRichmond
Postcode districtDL11
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament

History

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan, and as having 16 villagers, a 12-acre (4.9 ha) meadow, one fishery and two churches.[1] Formerly in the wapentake of Gilling West and the parish of Hutton Magna, the village is now in Richmondshire in North Yorkshire.[2][3] The name of Layton is historically recorded as Laston, Lastun and Latton, and means the town where the leeks are grown.[4][5]

The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included with the parish of East Layton.[6] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the population of the village was 40.[7]

References
  1. "[West] Layton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. "History of West Layton, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  3. "WEST LAYTON, RICHMONDSHIRE (DL11 7PS)". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  4. "West Layton :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  5. Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 277. OCLC 12542596.
  6. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – East Layton Parish (E04007477)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  7. "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 15. Retrieved 31 August 2020.

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