Cattal
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 Cattal railway station |
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| Cattal shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 115 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SE4454 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | YO5 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Cattal is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, about six miles East of Knaresborough, and is located 12 miles west of the city of York. Cattal is located on the River Nidd. Despite being a small village it is served by Cattal railway station on the Harrogate line (operated by Northern Rail) which is slightly north of Cattal, the railway station generally provides an hourly service to the nearby cities of York and Leeds. The village has one pub, The Victoria which is located close to the railway station and close to the village. Cattal has good transport links to nearby cities York and Leeds as it is located just one mile east of the A1 road this road also connects Cattal with much of south-east England including London. It's also just off the A59 which connects north-east England to the North West, including Liverpool.
Cattal is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Catale, Catala. The name probably derives from Old English catt 'wild cat' + halh 'nook of land', referring to land in a bend of the River Nidd associated with wild cats. The total tax assessed was described as quite large with a taxable value of 5 geld units. At this time the head of the manor was Aldborough. There were 2 ploughlands in the village at the time of the Domesday Book, and Osbern of Arques was both Tenant in Chief and Lord in 1086.
In the 1870s Cattal was described as:
Cattal also has a Roman road running through it. It provided a northward link between the road from Castleford to York via Tadcaster and the York to Aldborough road. The road approached the River Nidd from the south through the 'd' of Bridge and on to the 'Ancient Ford', this line was abandoned when the bridge was built a little upstream of the ford. The present road north from Cattal follows the Roman line, a little west of north to Providence Green and then a little east of north through Whixley, after which it meets the York-Aldborough road. The road known as Rudgate now has a brewery named after it in the nearby town on Tockwith.
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