Markington is a village in the

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district, in the English county of

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. The population of the civil parish (including

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) taken at the 2011 census was 629. Nearby settlements include the city of

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, the town of

, the village of South Stainley and the hamlet of Ingerthorpe. The A61 is nearby. Markington has a school, post office, village hall, cricket and football pitch, a church, a pub and a camp site. The place name was first recorded in about 1030 as ''Mercinga tun''. The name is probably from

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''mercinga'' "of the boundary people" and ''tūn'' "settlement or farmstead", so meaning "settlement of the boundary people". Or it might be derived from the name of the nearby settlement of Markenfield, so meaning "farmstead of the people of Markenfield". Markington is the principal settlement in the

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of Markington with Wallerthwaite. Wallerthwaite is a deserted medieval village just south of Markington. Markington with Wallerthwaite was historically a

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in the parish of Ripon, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. It absorbed the civil parish of Ingerthorpe in 1937. Markington was historically part of the

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until 1974.

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Markington School
Villages in North Yorkshire Borough of Harrogate {{Harrogate-geo-stub