Kiplingcotes

{{Short description|Hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2014}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.897429|-0.593796|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Kiplingcotes

| population =

| civil_parish = Dalton Holme

| civil_parish1 = Etton

| unitary_england = East Riding of Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| lieutenancy_england = East Riding of Yorkshire

| constituency_westminster = Beverley and Holderness

| post_town = BEVERLEY

| post_town1 = YORK

| postcode_district = HU17

| postcode_district1 = YO25

| postcode_area = HU

| postcode_area1 = YO

| dial_code = 01430

| os_grid_reference = SE925455

| london_distance_mi = 165

| london_direction = S

}}

Kiplingcotes is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately {{Convert|3.5|mi|km|0}} north-east of the market town of Market Weighton, and {{Convert|3|mi|km|0}} to the west of Etton.{{cite web |title=Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kipling Cotes |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/1915410 |website=visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=17 March 2023}}

The hamlet is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Climbicote, having two ploughlands and belonging to the Archbishop of York.{{cite web |title=Kipling Cotes {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE9047/kipling-cotes/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=17 March 2023}} The name was most often written as two words (Kipling Cotes, or Kipling Coates), and means The cottages of Cybbel's people, Cybbel being an Old English personal name.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A. H. |title=Place-names of East Riding of Yorkshire and York. |date=1970 |orig-date=1937 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=London |isbn=0521049075 |page=165}} It was originally part of the parish of Middleton on the Wolds, which was in the wapentake of Harthill.{{cite web |title=Genuki: Middleton On The Wolds, Yorkshire (East Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/MiddletonOnTheWolds |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=17 March 2023}} It is now split between the civil parishes of Dalton Holme and Etton, and is represented at Parliament as part of the Beverley and Holderness Constituency.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=492453&y=444916&z=7&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=WMC&labels=on |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=17 March 2023}}

Kiplingcotes is the location for the annual Kiplingcotes Derby horse race. The 500th race took place on 21 March 2019.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-47651700|title=Kiplingcotes Derby: Oldest horse race celebrates 500th anniversary|date=21 March 2019|work=BBC News|accessdate=21 March 2019}}

The hamlet was served by Kiplingcotes railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1865 and 1965.{{Butt-Stations|page=135}}

In 1823 Kiplingcotes (then alternatively Kipling Coates House), a farmer was listed as the only inhabitant.Baines, Edward (1823): History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, p. 361

Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit Nature Reserve, to the west of the hamlet is managed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.{{cite web|url=https://www.ywt.org.uk/nature-reserves/kiplingcotes-chalk-pit-nature-reserve|title=Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit {{!}} YWT|website=www.ywt.org.uk|accessdate=23 January 2019}}

In 1993, the name Kiplingcotes was removed from Ordnance Survey mapping, and Humberside County Council refused to place new signs directing people to the hamlet.{{cite news |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Paul |title=Domesday hamlet wants to put itself back on the map |work=The Times |issue=64741 |date=6 September 1993 |page=6|issn=0140-0460}}