Hemingbrough is a small village and
civil parish
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in the
Selby District
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of
North Yorkshire
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, England that is located approximately from
Selby
Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731.
The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...
and from
Howden
Howden () is a market and minster town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of York to the north of the M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole, which lies across the ...
on the
A63. The village has a 12th-century former
collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons: a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by ...
(Hemingbrough Minster), a Methodist chapel and shops. The village also has a primary school and nursery as well as a playing field for the local children. The surrounding area makes up part of the
Humberhead Levels
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and is flat land mainly used for mixed agriculture. It is thought that from this village came Walter of Hemingbrough, one of Britain's early chroniclers. Writing in the 14th century, he gave us a history beginning with the Norman conquest, now in the British Museum.
Robert de Hemmingburgh, a royal clerk who became
Master of the Rolls in Ireland
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, was born here in the late thirteenth century.
Nicholas Bubbewyth, a chancery clerk who became successively, Master of the Rolls, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lord High Treasurer of England, and Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Bath and Wells, was born in Menthorpe.
In 1989
Caron Keating
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Early life and education
Keating was born on 5 October 1962 in Fulham, west London, to an English father with southern Irish roots and a Northern ...
and
Blue Peter visited the village to replace the cockerel on the top of the church spire which had been damaged for several years.
In February 2014, Hemingbrough Parish Council were awarded funds from the
Heritage Lottery Fund
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History
The fund's predecessor bodies were ...
to help raise awareness of the historical heritage within Hemingbrough Parish to benefit the local community.
History and overview
![Hemingbrough station site geograph-3630034-by-Ben-Brooksbank](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Hemingbrough_station_site_geograph-3630034-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg)
The
toponym
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is of uncertain origin. The place is mentioned in the
Knýtlinga saga
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There are good rea ...
, and the name may be the ''
burh
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'' of a
Viking
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
named ''Hemingr''. Alternative explanations are that it was the burh of the followers of a man called Hema, or the burh by the fish-weir (
Old English
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''hemming'').
In the Middle Ages the village was in the
Ouse and Derwent
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wapentake
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of the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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. At that time the village was on the River Ouse, but at some point the river broke through a meander leaving the village some distance from the river. Hemingbrough was a large parish, and included the
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
s of
Barlby,
Osgodby,
Cliffe with Lund,
South Duffield
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Etymology
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,
Brackenholme with Woodhall and
Menthorpe with Bowthorpe. All these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866. In 1935 the civil parish of Hemingbrough absorbed the civil parish of Brackenholme with Woodhall.
In 1974 Hemingbrough was transferred from the East Riding to the new county of North Yorkshire.
The village holds a very popular summer fete replete with floats on lorries and tractor trailers. There is a memorial garden which the
Archbishop of York
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Dr John Sentamu
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visited in April 2016.
St Mary the Virgin Church
The village has a 12th-century church, called
St Mary the Virgin, which has served as a Minster to this area until the dissolution of the monasteries. It has a spire, added in the 15th century, which allows it to dominate the plain. Its importance lies in the woodwork and carvings in the church and it has oldest recorded
misericord
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in the country.
Governance
An
electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes
Cliffe and surrounding areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,098.
Notable residents
*
Nigel Cumberland
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- Author, who lived in the village during his schooling years
* Blessed
Robert Dalby - English Catholic priest and martyr.
*
Jeremiah Smith (Royal Navy officer) (died 1675)
References
External links
Hemingbrough Parish Council website
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Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
Selby District
Villages in North Yorkshire