Flasby

Flasby
Flasby is located in North Yorkshire
Flasby
Flasby
Location within North Yorkshire
Population207 (Including Calton and Eshton. 2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSD946566
Civil parish
  • Flasby with Winterburn
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSKIPTON
Postcode districtBD23
Dialling code01756
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°00′22″N 2°05′02″W / 54.0060°N 2.0839°W / 54.0060; -2.0839

Flasby is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the two settlements, with Winterburn, in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn, part of the Craven district. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 80 in 2012,[2] measured at 207 in the 2011 Census.[1]

Flasby was first mentioned, as Flatebi, in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3] The toponym is of Old Norse origin, meaning "the farmstead of a man called Flat" (the same origin as Flaxby).[4]

Flasby with Winterburn was a township in the ancient parish of Gargrave in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[5] It became a separate civil parish in 1866,[6] and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.

Flasby Hall is a large house built in 1843–44 and a Grade II listed building.[7] In 1848 the Flasby Sword, an Iron Age sword and scabbard, was discovered in the grounds. It is now in the Craven Museum & Gallery in Skipton.[8]

Freddie Trueman, the Yorkshire cricketer, lived in the village for many years.[9]

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Flasby with Winterburn Parish (1170216746)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2012. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  3. ^ Flasby in the Domesday Book
  4. ^ Smith, A. H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 6. Cambridge University Press. p. 48.
  5. ^ "GENUKI: Gargrave Supplementary". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Flasby With Winterburn CP/Tn through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit | Vision of Britain website". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Flasby Hall (1131653)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  8. ^ "The Flasby Sword". Craven Museum and Gallery. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  9. ^ Lockwood, Ian (7 July 2006). "The fire goes out on an adopted Dalesman". The Craven Herald & Pioneer. Retrieved 4 April 2019.