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Aldbrough St John
Aldbrough St John in England North East, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Aldbrough St John is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Aldbrough St John is a village and civil parish (called just Aldbrough) in North Yorkshire, England. The parish has a population of 325 (2001 census), increasing to 392 at the 2011 Census. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The village is 6 miles (9 km) west of Darlington, 7 miles (12 km) north of Richmond and 2 miles (3 km) north of junction 56 on the A1(M) motorway. The road north from junction 56 of the A1(M) is part of Dere Street and runs up to Piercebridge and beyond. Because of its proximity to the Roman Road in the east, the A66 (former Roman Road) to the south and the River Tees to the north, suggestions of Romano-British settlements persist around the village.
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Background
History
In the Norse language Aldbrough means "Old Burh" or fortified stronghold. The St John suffix was added to the name in the 1930s by the Post Office to avoid confusion with the Aldborough near Boroughbridge. At one time Aldbrough St John had a "small castle". We know this from John Leland's account in 1540 that "There appere great ruines of a howse or litle castel at Albruch village, and thereby rennith a bekke. It standith a 2 mile south from Perse Bridg on Tese". Perse Bridg is now called Piercebridge 2 miles north of Aldbrough referred to above as Albruch. When the Duchess of Northumberland came to live in the village in the 1865, she had many of the old properties removed and the stone…
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- Coordinates
- 54.4960, -1.6880
Sources
- wikidata: Q2461242 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Aldbrough St John (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Where is Aldbrough St John?
- Aldbrough St John is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4960°, -1.6880°.