Levisham

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}

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| official_name = Levisham

| static_image_name = Levisham in 2002.jpg

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| civil_parish = Levisham

| unitary_england = North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster = Thirsk and Malton

| post_town = PICKERING

| postcode_district = YO18

| postcode_area = YO

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| os_grid_reference = SE833905

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Levisham is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park about {{convert|5|mi|0}} north of Pickering. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Lockton.

History

The village is recorded as a very small settlement in the Domesday Book of 1086.{{cite web |title=Levisham {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8390/levisham/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=20 April 2021}} The name of the village was first recorded in 1086 as Leuecen, and it derives from Old Norse, meaning the farmstead of Leofgeat's people.{{cite web |title=Levisham :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/North+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Levisham/53286b32b47fc40bc6000522-Levisham |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=296 |edition=4}} The village is believed to have moved location due to the Black Death in the 14th century.{{cite book |last1=Bagshaw |first1=Mike |title=Slow Yorkshire Moors & Wolds : including York & the coast |date=2014 |publisher=Bradt |location=Chalfont St. Peter |isbn=978-1-84162-548-5 |page=89}} The Church of St Mary, a grade II* listed building which dates to the 11th century, is now isolated from the current village,{{cite web |title=A view looking down onto St Mary's Church, now isolated from the village of Levisham, but thought by local legend to be all that remains of an earlier village wiped out by plague in medieval times (AA083569) Archive Item - John Gay Collection |publisher= Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/AA083569 |accessdate=20 April 2021}} and is thought to mark the site of a Deserted Medieval Village.{{NHLE|desc=Church of St Mary|num=1280303|grade=II*|access-date=20 April 2021}} The church fell into disuse in the 1950s, though burials continue, and the main place of Anglican worship is the Church of St John the Baptist, which is in Levisham village, some {{convert|800|m|order=flip}} away from St Mary's.{{cite journal|last1=Hall|first1=R. A.|last2=Lang|first2=J. T.|title=St Mary's Church, Levisham, North Yorkshire|date=1986|volume=58|publisher=Yorkshire Archaeological Society|location=Leeds|journal=Yorkshire Archaeological Journal|issn=0084-4276|page=58}}

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Locations

It has a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.{{cite book |last1=Kelman |first1=Leanne |title=Railway Track Diagrams; Book 2 - Eastern |date=2020 |publisher=Trackmaps |location=Frome |isbn=978-1-9996271-3-3|at=48D}} Nearby villages include Newton-on-Rawcliffe and Lockton.

Demographics

At the 2011 census, details were recorded with the parish of Lockton,{{NOMIS2011|id=E04007602|title=Lockton Parish|accessdate=20 April 2021}} however, an estimate by North Yorkshire County Council in 2015 stated that the population was 70.{{cite web |title=2015 Population Estimates Parishes |url=https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf |website=northyorks.gov.uk |accessdate= 20 April 2021|page=16 |date=December 2016}}

Miscellaneous

Heartbeat actress Lisa Kay (nurse Carol Cassidy) is from Levisham.{{cite news |title=Lisa's home advantage |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-and-tv/lisas-home-advantage-1045371 |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=17 April 2010}}

In April 2021 the village was used as a filming location for the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One film.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-56816211|title=Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible scenes in Yorkshire|date=20 April 2021|work=BBC News|accessdate=11 June 2021}}

References

External links

[http://www.locktonlevisham.co.uk/ Levisham and Lockton Past and Present]

Category:Villages in North Yorkshire

Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire