St Martin's is a

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, England. It is located south of the town of

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, covering the residential areas south of the

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, including the former Richmond railway station and Holly Hill. Located within the parish is the ruin of St. Martin's Priory, a former

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house.

History

Richmond railway station is located within the parish, which is separated from Richmond by the River Swale. The position of the station was because it was considered "geographically impossible" to locate the station within the town. Of the ten listed buildings in the parish, seven are associated with the railway terminus, one is the bridge at the west of the parish into Richmond, and two are those associated with St Martin's Priory, the namesake of the parish.

Governance

Historically, St Martin's was in the ecclesiastical parish of Catterick, and was its own extra parochial area, before being made into a civil parish in 1858. It was originally in the

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of Gilling West, but was moved into the wapentake

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. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of

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, it is now administered by the unitary

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. In 2001, the parish had a population of 242, which had dropped to 222 by the time of the 2011 census. In 2015,

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estimated the population of the parish to be 200.

References

External links

St Martin's Parish Council webpage
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{NorthYorkshire-geo-stub