Carperby

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Village in North Yorkshire, England

title: "Carperby" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-north-yorkshire", "wensleydale"] description: "Village in North Yorkshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-north-yorkshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carperby" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in North Yorkshire, England ::

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countryEngland
static_imageVillage Cross, Carperby.jpg
static_image_captionCarperby Market Cross
coordinates
official_nameCarperby
civil_parishCarperby-cum-Thoresby
unitary_englandNorth Yorkshire
lieutenancy_englandNorth Yorkshire
regionYorkshire and the Humber
os_grid_referenceSE005896
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| country = England | static_image = Village Cross, Carperby.jpg | static_image_caption = Carperby Market Cross | coordinates = | official_name = Carperby | population = | civil_parish = Carperby-cum-Thoresby | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = | post_town = | postcode_district = | postcode_area = | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SE005896 Carperby is a village in Wensleydale, one of the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 11 km west of Leyburn.

Etymology

The derivation of the villages name is uncertain, but Ekwall believes it to mean 'Cairpe's settlement' in Old Norse (Cairpes bȳ). The name Cairpe is of Old Irish origin, implying Norse-Gaelic settlement in the area.

History

In the centre of the village is a Carperby Market Cross, dated 1674, that tells of the time when Carperby had a market (granted in 1305). In the 17th century the village was an important Wensleydale centre of Quakerism, and its biggest building even today is the classically styled Carperby Quaker Meeting House of 1864. In 1810, the western end of the village supposedly suffered from a fire which destroyed 12 thatched cottages. Whilst there is no documentary evidence of this, it is a locally believed legend and mapping from 1819 and 1856 does show at least nine dwellings as having been removed.

The Richmond to Lancaster Turnpike was opened up through the village in 1751. Later diversions meant that the main A684 road was diverted to run through Aysgarth. The minor road that now runs through Carperby shadows the A684 westwards along the valley until the two roads meet at Hardraw. The road through Carperby is colloquially known as 'The High Road'. The name of the Wheatsheaf Hotel suggests a corn-growing past, and the inn itself was where James Herriot and his bride spent their honeymoon in 1941.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldofjamesherriot.org/jamesherriot.htm |title=James Herriot |work=The World of James Herriot |publisher=Hambleton District Council |accessdate=15 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719131930/http://www.worldofjamesherriot.org/jamesherriot.htm |archivedate=19 July 2011 |df=

In 2004, the village launched a campaign to provide a sports pavilion for its football team which plays in the Wensleydale Creamery League. After years of events and fundraising, the effort was still far short of its goal when the Mars confectionery company donated money to the final £125,000 needed to construct the pavilion. The building of the pavilion was filmed in a time-lapse and used by Mars as a TV advertisement which also had footballer Peter Crouch playing on the pitch at Carperby.

References

References

  1. (2016). "Yorkshire Dales - Northern & Central Area". Ordnance Survey.
  2. (1960). "The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names". Oxford University Press.
  3. "Place names of the Yorkshire Dales".
  4. (1970). "Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: The Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton". Clarendon.
  5. {{National Heritage List for England
  6. {{National Heritage List for England
  7. (1840). "History, gazetteer, and directory, of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire". William White.
  8. "Out of Oblivion: A landscape through time".
  9. (5 November 2015). "Craven's turnpike history should be protected". Craven Herald.
  10. "Out of Oblivion: A landscape through time".
  11. "Genuki: In 1822, the following places were in the Parish of Aysgarth:, Yorkshire (North Riding)".
  12. (25 October 2010). "Carperby to get new sports pavilion – and starring role on TV – thanks to confectionery giant". The Yorkshire Post.
  13. (10 February 2011). "Carperby famous for its football as TV advert goes live". The Northern Echo.

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