Cridling Stubbs Community Centre - geograph

Cridling Stubbs is a village and a civil parish in the Selby district, in the English county of

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...

. It is near the town of

Knottingley Knottingley is a market town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1(M). Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Ridi ...

. Its population in 2011 was 152. The village was historically part of the

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county County of York, West Riding (the area under the control of West Riding County Council), abbreviated County ...

until 1974. A Romano-British

hoard A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...

of 3,330 coins in a jar (the

Cridling Stubbs Hoard The Cridling Stubbs hoard (also known as the Womersley Hoard or Womersley I)is a Romano-British hoard of more than 3,300 coins in a large, ceramic jar. Discovery Parts of the hoard was discovered by Mr W Frost, a farmworker at Lodge Farm, Cridl ...

) dating to the 4th century AD was found near the village in 1967.

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DESIGN STATEMENT AND PARISH PLAN 2006
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Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire Selby District {{Selby-geo-stub