Leeming is a village in the

Hambleton District Hambleton is a local government district in North Yorkshire, England. The administrative centre is Northallerton, and the district includes the outlying towns and villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley, and Easingwold. The ...

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, England.

Geography

Leeming lies a mile east of the current

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road, south of the larger village of Leeming Bar and north of the small hamlet of Londonderry. Nearby is the RAF base of

RAF Leeming Royal Air Force Leeming or RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Between 1950 and 1991, it ...

. Before the opening of the £1 million bypass in October 1961, the A1 passed through the village following the path of

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, parallel and close to the main of the airfield.

History

The name derives from the river-name, which turned settlement-name. The etymology may be linked with

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*lemanio "elm-tree", but there are other possibilities. An archaeological survey undertaken on Kelsall Villa (a Roman site near to Leeming Bar) describes it as deriving from the river with ''Leming'' meaning bright stream. In April 2008, the nearby base's remaining

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F3 squadron ( 25 Sqn) was disbanded. The base has been redeveloped as a communications station with the formation of No. 90 Signals Unit, the first elements of which began arriving in 2006. Three flying squadrons remain at the base, No. 100 Squadron RAF,

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and the

Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron The Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron (more commonly known as YUAS) is a Royal Air Force flying training unit that currently operates out of RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, England. One of fourteen University Air Squadrons, the unit traditionall ...

. The village churchyard is the burial place of Flt Lt John Quinton GC DFC, who sacrificed himself to save an air cadet by providing the cadet with the only available parachute after a mid-air collision.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Carthorpe with a total population of 3,500.

Biogas plant

In July 2016, an £18 million

biogas Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a ...

plant was opened at the southern end of the village adjacent to RAF Leeming. The Clapham Lodge facility takes in of

food waste Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about o ...

annually from local farms and food manufacturers and produces biogas (

biomethane Renewable natural gas (RNG), also known as sustainable natural gas (SNG) or biomethane, is a biogas which has been upgraded to a quality similar to fossil natural gas and having a methane concentration of 90% or greater. By increasing the concentr ...

) and fertiliser from its

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(AD) plant. The plant generates approximately of biogas per year which is fed directly into the Northern Gas Network pipeline and is enough to power almost 4,800 homes. The fertiliser is then sold off to local farms. Local firms such as R & R foods (based at Leeming Bar) and Wensleydale Creamery in

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both supply waste product for use in the biogas plant. Wensleydale Creamery, famous for producing

Wensleydale Cheese Wensleydale is a style of cheese originally produced in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, but now mostly made in large commercial creameries throughout the United Kingdom. The term "Yorkshire Wensleydale" can only be used for cheese that ...

, signed a contract in 2019 for the biogas plant to take on the

whey Whey is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained. It is a byproduct of the manufacturing of cheese or casein and has several commercial uses. Sweet whey is a byproduct resulting from the manufacture of rennet types of har ...

by-product from their cheesemaking. This will add an additional of green gas to the plants' output every year, which is enough to power 800 homes.

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History
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