North Otterington is a
civil parish with no village centre on the east bank of the
River Wiske, in the
Hambleton District of
North Yorkshire, England. North Yorkshire County Council estimated its population in 2011 to be 40 and 30 in 2015. Details are also included in the civil parish of
Ainderby Steeple
Ainderby Steeple is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. Ainderby Steeple is situated on the A684 approximately south-west of the County Town of Northallerton, and to the immediate east of Morton- ...
. It is on the
A167 road
The A167 and A167(M) is a road in North East England. It is partially a trunk road and partially a motorway, where it is commonly referred to as Newcastle Central Motorway. Most of the road’s route was formerly that of the A1, until it was ...
south of
Northallerton;
South Otterington is further south on the same road.
The Otterinton name is from
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
(''Oter's Tun'') and means the ''town of Oter's people''. It was recorded in the
Domesday Book as ''Otrinctun'' in the Hundred (
Wapentake) of
Allerton.
The Church of St Michael and All Angels dates to the 12th century and was expanded in the 14th, 17th and 19th centuries. The site was important in
Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
times, Saxon coffins and swords were unearthed in the 19th century restoration but the first vicar was not recorded until 1282. For many years, St Michael's was the
Mother Church of the parish and wider area and
corpse road
Corpse roads provided a practical means for transporting corpses, often from remote communities, to cemetery, cemeteries that had burial rights, such as parish churches and chapel of ease, chapels of ease. In Britain, such routes can also be known ...
s extended from
Thornton-le-Moor and
Thornton le Beans which are still marked on modern day
Ordnance Survey maps.
The church is
grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
and used for services on three Sundays of each month.
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Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire