Hemingbrough

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The toponym is of uncertain origin. The place is mentioned in the Knýtlinga saga, and the name may be the burh of a Viking named Hemingr. Alternative explanations are that it was the burh of the followers of a man called Hema, or the burh by the fish-weir (Old English hemming).{{cite book|contribution=Hemingbrough|year=2010|title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names|editor-last=Watts|editor-first=Victor|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}

It is thought that from this village came Walter of Hemingbrough, one of Britain's early chroniclers. Writing in the 14th century, he gave us a history beginning with the Norman Conquest, now in the British Museum.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire. At that time the village was on the River Ouse, but at some point the river broke through a meander leaving the village some distance from the river. Hemingbrough was a large parish, and included the townships of Barlby, Osgodby, Cliffe with Lund, South Duffield, Brackenholme with Woodhall and Menthorpe with Bowthorpe. All these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866. In 1935 the civil parish of Hemingbrough absorbed the civil parish of Brackenholme with Woodhall.{{cite web|first1=A. P.|last1=Baggs|first2=G. H. R|last2=Kent|first3=J. D.|last3=Purdy|title=Hemingbrough|work=A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 3, Ouse and Derwent Wapentake, and Part of Harthill Wapentake|editor-first=K. J.|editor-last=Allison|year=1976|series=Victoria County History|pages=37–47|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol3/pp37-47|accessdate=16 May 2015}}

In 1974 Hemingbrough was transferred from the East Riding to the new county of North Yorkshire.{{cite web|title=History of Hemingbrough, in Selby and East Riding {{!}} Map and description|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12887|access-date=25 November 2020|website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk}} From 1974 to 2023, the parish was in the Selby District of the shire county of North Yorkshire. In 2023 the district was abolished and North Yorkshire became a unitary authority.

The village holds a summer fete, replete with floats on lorries and tractor trailers.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-464000-429000|title=Domesday Reloaded: Hemingbrough Fete Day, from 1986|publisher=BBC|date=|access-date=27 May 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320034407/https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-464000-429000|archivedate=20 March 2012|url-status=dead}} There is a memorial garden which the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu visited in April 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.dev.phhhs.org.uk/latest-news/|title=Latest News | Hemingbrough Historical Heritage Society|publisher=Dev.phhhs.org.uk|date=6 October 2013|access-date=27 May 2016}}

In February 2014, Hemingbrough Parish Council were awarded funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help raise awareness of the historical heritage within Hemingbrough Parish to benefit the local community.{{cite web |date=13 February 2014 |title=Schedule of Decisions under delegated powers to Head of HLF Yorkshire and the Humber |url=http://closedprogrammes.hlf.org.uk/aboutus/decisionmakers/committees/Documents/YHDDecisions201402.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826150326/http://closedprogrammes.hlf.org.uk/aboutus/decisionmakers/committees/Documents/YHDDecisions201402.pdf |archive-date=26 August 2016}}

The village has a 12th-century church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, which served as a minster to this area until the dissolution of the monasteries. It has a {{convert|120|ft|m|0|adj=on}} spire, added in the 15th century, which allows it to dominate the plain. The church is Grade I listed; its importance lies in the woodwork and carvings in the church and it has oldest recorded misericord in the country.{{NHLE|num=1148462|desc=Church of St Mary the Virgin – Hemingbrough – North Yorkshire – England|date=17 November 1966|accessdate=30 July 2021}}{{cite web |title=Hemingbrough Church – St. Mary |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18908/ |access-date=10 January 2025 |website=A Church Near You |publisher=The Archbishops' Council}}

• Robert de Hemmingburgh, a royal clerk who became Master of the Rolls in Ireland, was born here in the late thirteenth century.
• Nicholas Bubbewyth, a chancery clerk who became successively Master of the Rolls, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lord High Treasurer of England, and Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Bath and Wells, was born in Menthorpe.

• Nigel Cumberland, author, lived in the village during his schooling years
• Blessed Robert Dalby – Catholic priest and martyr
• The Kirlew family were influential in Hemingbrough for many centuries. George Kirlew of this family was a big slave owner in Jamaica and ended up owning what is now the Mount Royale Hotel in York. John Bibby, Events in 1833 in York, Yorkshire Philosophical Society Newsletter, Autumn 2024.
• Jeremiah Smith (Royal Navy officer) (died 1675){{cite book|chapter=Smith or Smyth, Sir Jeremiah (d. 1675)|chapter-url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Smith,_Jeremiah_%28d.1675%29_%28DNB00%29|title=Dictionary of National Biography|volume={{nobreak|Volume 53}}}}

• Listed buildings in Hemingbrough

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• [http://www.hemingbroughparishcouncil.co.uk Hemingbrough Parish Council website]

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