Levisham

Levisham
Levisham
	Levisham Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE833905
Civil parish	Levisham;
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PICKERING
Postcode district	YO18
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Thirsk and Malton;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°18′14″N 0°43′15″W / 54.303840°N 0.720930°W

Levisham is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park about 5 miles (8 km) north of Pickering. Its history dates back to the 11th century.

History

The village is recorded as a very small settlement in the Domesday Book of 1086.^[1] The name of the village was first recorded in 1086 as Leuecen, and it derives from Old Norse, meaning the farmstead of Leofgeat's people.^[2]^[3] The village is believed to have moved location due to the Black Death in the 14th century.^[4] The Church of St Mary, a grade II* listed building which dates to the 11th century, is now isolated from the current village,^[5] and is thought to mark the site of a deserted medieval village.^[6] The church fell into disuse in the 1950s, though burials continue, and the main place of Anglican worship is the Church of St John the Baptist, which is in Levisham village, some 2,600 feet (800 m) away from St Mary's.^[7]

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Locations

It has a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.^[8] Nearby villages include Newton-on-Rawcliffe and Lockton. Levisham Estate is owned by the North York Moors National Park Authority. The estate land was purchased between 1975 and 1988, primarily in order to protect the moorland from being ploughed.^[9]

In April 2021 the village was used as a filming location for the film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.^[10]

Demographics

At the 2011 census the population was less than 100. Details are included with the civil parish of Lockton.^[11] An estimate published by North Yorkshire County Council in 2015 stated that the population was 70.^[12]

People from Levisham

Heartbeat actress Lisa Kay (nurse Carol Cassidy) is from Levisham.^[13]

References

↑ "Levisham | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ "Levisham :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296. OCLC 1228215388.
↑ Bagshaw, Mike (2014). Slow Yorkshire Moors & Wolds : including York & the coast. Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-84162-548-5.
↑ "A view looking down onto St Mary's Church, now isolated from the village of Levisham, but thought by local legend to be all that remains of an earlier village wiped out by plague in medieval times (AA083569) Archive Item - John Gay Collection". Historic England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1280303)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ Hall, R. A.; Lang, J. T. (1986). "St Mary's Church, Levisham, North Yorkshire". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 58. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society: 58. ISSN 0084-4276.
↑ Kelman, Leanne (2020). Railway Track Diagrams; Book 2 - Eastern. Frome: Trackmaps. 48D. ISBN 978-1-9996271-3-3.
↑ North York Moors National Park, Levisham Estate, accessed on 11 June 2026
↑ "Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible scenes in Yorkshire". BBC News. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lockton Parish (E04007602)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
↑ "Lisa's home advantage". Manchester Evening News. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

External links

Levisham and Lockton Past and Present

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[1] "Levisham | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[2] "Levisham :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[3] Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296. OCLC 1228215388.

[4] Bagshaw, Mike (2014). Slow Yorkshire Moors & Wolds : including York & the coast. Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-84162-548-5.

[5] "A view looking down onto St Mary's Church, now isolated from the village of Levisham, but thought by local legend to be all that remains of an earlier village wiped out by plague in medieval times (AA083569) Archive Item - John Gay Collection". Historic England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[6] Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1280303)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[7] Hall, R. A.; Lang, J. T. (1986). "St Mary's Church, Levisham, North Yorkshire". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 58. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society: 58. ISSN 0084-4276.

[8] Kelman, Leanne (2020). Railway Track Diagrams; Book 2 - Eastern. Frome: Trackmaps. 48D. ISBN 978-1-9996271-3-3.

[9] North York Moors National Park, Levisham Estate, accessed on 11 June 2026

[10] "Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible scenes in Yorkshire". BBC News. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

[11] UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Lockton Parish (E04007602)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[12] "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[13] "Lisa's home advantage". Manchester Evening News. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

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