Easby Abbey - Geograph
Easby may refer to: Places in England * Easby, Hambleton, North Yorkshire **Easby Moor *Easby, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire **Easby Abbey ** Easby Hall People *George Meade Easby (1918–2005), American actor and producer * Joseph Easby (1867–1915), English cricketer Other *Easby Cross The Easby Cross is an Anglo-Saxon sandstone standing cross from 800–820, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It originally came from Easby near Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, where a plaster replica i ...

Easby, Hambleton
Easby is a village and civil parish in Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately south-east of Great Ayton. The larger village of Low Easby lies down the road, but neither have any amenities, only a postbox. The name Easby comes from Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ... and means ''farmstead or village of a man called Esa''. References External links Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{Hambleton-geo-stub ...
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Easby Moor
Easby Moor is a hill located in the civil parish of Little Ayton in the North York Moors National Parks of England and Wales, national park within the Cleveland Hills, North Yorkshire, England. At the peak, above sea level, is a monument to Captain James Cook, who was native to the area. The Cleveland Way runs over the moor. The moor overlooks the villages of Easby, Hambleton, Easby and Great Ayton and Little Ayton. History The moor was the scene of an air crash during the Second World War. At 4:10 a.m. on 11 February 1940, a Lockheed Hudson, Hudson aircraft took off from Thornaby airfield, to search for German minesweepers operating off the Danish coast. Five minutes later the plane crashed on Easby Moor, killing three of the four crewmen and injuring the fourth. As ice had formed on the wings, the aircraft failed to gain sufficient height to clear the hill. The aircraft ploughed through a larch plantation before coming to rest. The gap in the plantation corresponds ...
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Easby, Richmondshire
Easby is a hamlet and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Richmond on the banks of the River Swale, approximately north west from the county town of Northallerton. The population taken by ONS was less than 100. Population information is included in the parish of Hudswell. History The hamlet is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as '' Asebi'', whose lands belonged to Count Alan of Brittany. He had granted the lordship of the manor to ''Thor'' at the time of the Norman Conquest, but it had passed to ''Enisant Mussard'', Constable of Richmond Castle, by 1086. There were seven households and five ploughlands at a taxable value of six geld units. The manor passed from Enisant to Roald de Richmond and then to descent of the lords of Constable Burton. The lands were held as demesne lordships by the Marmion and Fitz Hugh families into the 12th century, but eventually they were granted to the nearby Abbey who held them unti ...
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Easby Abbey
Easby Abbey, or the Abbey of St Agatha, is a ruined Premonstratensian abbey on the eastern bank of the River Swale on the outskirts of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The site is privately owned but maintained by English Heritage and can be reached by a riverside walk from Richmond Castle. Within the precinct is the still-active parish church, displaying 13th-century wall paintings. History The Abbey of St Agatha, Easby, was founded in 1152 by Roald, Constable of Richmond Castle. The inhabitants were canons rather than monks. The Premonstratensians wore a white habit and became known as the White Canons. Easby was a daughter house of the Abbey of St Mary and St Martial (Newsham Abbey) in Lincolnshire; it was the third Premonstratensian house funded in England. The White Canons followed a code of austerity similar to that of Cistercian monks. Unlike monks of other orders, they were exempt from episcopal discipline. They undertook preaching and ...
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Easby Hall, Richmond
Easby Hall near Richmond in North Yorkshire, England is a building of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register. Built in 1729 by the Reverend William Smith, Easby Hall became the home of many notable people for the next two and a half centuries. It now provides bed and breakfast accommodation and is a venue for special events. Early history Reverend William Smith (–1735) built the Hall in 1729 shortly after he bought the Easby Estate. He was the son of Dr William Smith who lived in the village of Easby. His mother was Anne Layton and his uncle was Henry Layton a philosopher and theological writer. William was educated at the local grammar school in Richmond and then went to the University of Oxford to obtain his degree. He was an antiquarian and obtained a Fellowship at Oxford where he remained for the next twelve years. In 1704 he became the Rector of Melsonby and retained this job until his death in 1735. He continued his writing while he ...
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George Meade Easby
George Gordon Meade Easby (June 3, 1918 – December 11, 2005), also known as Meade or Mr. Easby, was a multi-talented person, from an artist to acting and producing films. He also served as an employee of the U.S. State Department for over twenty-five years and as a talk host on an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Easby was the great-grandson of General George Meade, victor of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg against Robert E. Lee, and a descendant of seven signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Easby's mother was a descendant of Nicholas Waln, who came to Philadelphia in 1682 aboard the ship ''Welcome'' with William Penn, and was later given the section of the city now known as Frankford. Early life and family background Easby was born on June 3, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was Major May Stevenson Easby, a banker in Philadelphia and World War I hero. Easby's mother was Henrietta Meade Large Easby, described as "prim and reserved, a ...
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Joseph Easby
Joseph William Easby (12 August 1867 – 7 February 1915) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket at the end of the 19th century.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 157–158.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Easby was born at Appleton Wiske in Yorkshire in 1867.Joseph Easby

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