Londesborough

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England}}

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

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.898491|-0.679446|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Londesborough

| static_image = All Saints Church Londesborough 5.jpg

| static_image_caption = All Saints Church, Londesborough

| population = 182

| population_ref = (2011 census)

| civil_parish = Londesborough

| unitary_england = East Riding of Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| lieutenancy_england = East Riding of Yorkshire

| constituency_westminster = Bridlington and The Wolds

| post_town = YORK

| postcode_district = YO43

| postcode_area = YO

| dial_code = 01430

| os_grid_reference = SE868455

| london_distance_mi = 165

| london_direction = S

}}

Londesborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately {{Convert|2.5|mi|km|0}} north of the market town of Market Weighton.

The civil parish is formed by the village of Londesborough and the hamlet of Middlethorpe.

According to the 2011 UK census, Londesborough parish had a population of 182,{{NOMIS2011

| id = 1170211219

| title = Londesborough Parish

| accessdate = 21 February 2018}} a reduction of one on the 2001 UK census figure.{{NOMIS2001

| id = 1543504262

|title = Londesborough Parish

| accessdate = 7 January 2019

}}

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long distance footpath passes through the village. Some scholars suggest the still-undiscovered Roman camp of Delgovicia is in the vicinity of Londesborough.{{cite book |last1= Pitts Capper|first1=Benjamin |title=A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom |year=1825 |location=London|page=669 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-pE9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT669}} Londesborough Hall was a country house in the village but all that now remains is the park land that surrounded the house which is called Londesborough Park. The church dedicated to All Saints was designated a Grade I listed building in 1967 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.{{NHLE|num=1084136|desc=Church of All Saints|accessdate=11 August 2013}} In 1823 Londesborough was a civil parish in the Holme Beacon Division in the Wapentake of Harthill. Londesborough is one of the sites in the East Riding that have been conjectured as the Romano-British town of Delgovicia, an eastern station associated with York. A Roman road from Brough on the Humber Estuary ran directly north to meet Londesborough estate and village, where were found Roman coins and burial repositories.

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The estate of Londesborough was one of the seats of the Dukes of Devonshire. It was an historical possession of the Clifford family—Earls of Cumberland—until the 5th Earl's only heiress married the Earl of Cork, from whose family the Dukes of Devonshire are descended. The estate's mansion in 1823 had recently been demolished. The 6th Duke of Devonshire was the patron of All Saints' Church, the ecclesiastical parish living, and a hospital for "six old bachelors or widowers, and six widows". Londesborough population in 1823 was 244. Within the parish was a blacksmith, a clerk, a schoolmaster who was also the parish clerk, the parish rector, the agent for the Duke of Devonshire, and the landlord of The Devonshire Arms public house who was also a maltster.{{cite book|author-link=Edward Baines (1774–1848)|last=Baines|first= Edward|year=1823|title=History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York|page=364}}{{cite book|last=Pitts Capper|first= Benjamin |orig-year=1808|title=A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom|location=London|page=669|type= Reprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions |year=2011|isbn= 978-1241313456}} Londesborough was served by Londesborough railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1847 and 1965.{{Butt-Stations|page=148}}