Grantley is a village (also known as High Grantley) and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

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, England. It lies west of

Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

. The parish also includes the hamlet of Low Grantley. The population of the parish was estimated at 130 in 2013. The parish lies on the north bank of the

River Skell The River Skell is a tributary of the River Ure in North Yorkshire, England. Its source is in boggy ground on moorland north of Pateley Bridge. For its first the river is known as Skell Beck. Descending from the moor the river enters Ske ...

, in a well-wooded valley. Grantley Sawmills is a local employer, just outside the parish on the south bank of the river.

Grantley Hall Grantley Hall is an English country house located in North Yorkshire, England, in use as a hotel. It is situated near Grantley, North Yorkshire, Grantley, about to the west of Ripon, on the banks of the River Skell. It is Listed building#Englan ...

, on the north bank of the river, is an 18th-century

Grade II* listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

, built by Thomas Norton and his son

Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, PC (23 June 1716 – 1 January 1789) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantley. Life and career Norton was ...

. The toponym, first mentioned in about 1030, is

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, and means "clearing of a man called Grante". Grantley was historically a

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

in the parish of Ripon in the

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, lieu ...

. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. The parish now shares a

grouped parish council A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government. Parish councils are elected corporate bodies, with variable tax raising powers, and they carry out beneficial public activities in geogr ...

with the civil parishes of Sawley, Eavestone and Skelding, known as the Grantley, Sawley, Skelding and Eavestone Parish Council. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the

Borough of Harrogate The Borough of Harrogate was a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England, from 1974 to 2023. Its council was based in the town of Harrogate, but it also included surrounding settlements, including the cathedral ...

, it is now administered by the unitary

North Yorkshire Council North Yorkshire Council, known between 1974 and 2023 as North Yorkshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 2023 the council has been a unitary authority, being a county coun ...

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