Barton-le-Street

The village is recorded as Bartun in the Domesday Book.{{Ekwall|29}} It lay within the Maneshou Hundred and was in the possession of the King having previously been owned by Earl Morcar. The village name is Anglo-Saxon and derived from bere, meaning barley and tun meaning settlement.{{cite web|url=http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Barton|title=Etymology|accessdate=10 November 2012}} The suffix of "le-Street" denotes that it was situated on an old Roman road.

The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton parliamentary constituency. It was part of the Ryedale district from 1974 until 2023.

It is within the Amotherby and Ampleforth electoral division of North Yorkshire Council.{{cite web |title=Find a councillor |url=https://edemocracy.northyorks.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx?XXR=0&AC=WARD&WID=13320 |website=North Yorkshire Council |access-date=3 June 2023}}

The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Butterwick. According to the 2001 UK census the parish population was 186. There are 82 dwellings of which all but one were occupied. Of the total population, 158 were over 16 years old of which 92 were in employment.{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=7&b=798071&c=barton-le-street+cp&d=16&g=476513&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1352560655340&enc=1&domainId=15|title=2001 UK Census Statistics|accessdate=10 November 2012}}

The village lies {{convert|5.5|mi}} west of Malton on the B1257 between Appleton-le-Street to the east and Slingsby to the west. The area is made of undulating hills on limestone bedrock covered by clay.{{cite book|title=Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890 |page=645|year=2002|origyear=1890 |publisher= S&N Publishing|isbn= 1-86150-299-0}} It is surrounding by farmland, mostly for crop growing. The village used to have a station on the Thirsk and Malton Line used to pass through the village and the Old Station buildings, now the Village Hall, can be found on the north side on the road to Butterwick. The village is served by the Malton to Helmsley bus service.{{cite web|url=http://getdown.org.uk/bus/bus/194.htm|title=Public Transport|accessdate= 10 November 2012}}

There is no longer a school in the village and the nearest Primary education is to be found at Amotherby Community Primary School or Slinsgby Community Primary School. Secondary education is provided at Malton School.{{cite web|url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2977 |title=Schools |accessdate=10 November 2012 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109235655/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2977 |archivedate=9 November 2012 }}

St Michael's Church, Barton-le-Street was re-built in 1871 on the same site of the previous Norman church believed to have been built around 1160.{{cite web|url=http://www.thestreetparishes.org.uk/barton-le-street.html|title=The Street Parishes|accessdate=10 November 2012}}

• Listed buildings in Barton-le-Street

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|File:St Michael and All Angels Church Barton-le-Street (Nigel Coates).jpg|St Michael and All Angels Church

|File:Barton-le-Street Station 1767356 004b2eec.jpg|Until 1931 there was a railway station, seen here in 1961, on the North Eastern Railway

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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire

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