Laverton, North Yorkshire

Cottages at Laverton

Laverton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Ripon. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 census was 260.[1] The River Laver, from which the settlement derives its name, flows through the village.[2] The parish includes the area of Dallowgill west of the village of Laverton.

Historically Laverton was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malzeard in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[3] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred from the West Riding to North Yorkshire in 1974. The parish now shares a parish council with Kirkby Malzeard (Kirkby Malzeard, Laverton and Dallowgill Parish Council). There are also places to stay at Laverton.

  1. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Laverton Parish (1170217038)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 290. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  3. ^ "Laverton Tn/CP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 17 February 2019.