Weaverthorpe
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.jpg) Looking north over Weaverthorpe |
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 Weaverthorpe
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| Weaverthorpe shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 349 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SE965708 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MALTON |
| Postcode district | YO17 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Weaverthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is 13 miles (21 km) south west of Scarborough.
Bronze Age settlements have been found at nearby Cowlam, which is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) to the south. It was one of the leading burial sites in Yorkshire where the dead were interred in their chariots.
There was a vill on the site in the period of Viking/Norse settlement when it was known as Wifertorp (11th century). The village's name is linked to a certain Vidhfari, anglicized in Wivar. In the Domesday Book there is a mention of Wiveretorp where it was classed as very small and had depreciated in value from 1066 to 1086. Same male's name as in Wiverton (Nottingham) and in the Vierville (Wiarevilla 1158), Virville (Wivarevilla v. 1210) and Viertot of Normandy which appears to come from Old Scandinavian; which means that Weaverthorpe translates as the farm or settlement of the male name Vidhfari or Wivar.
After the Norman conquest it was held by the Archbishop of York under Michael FitzHerbert. In the 12th century the church of St. Andrew was granted to Nostell Priory until 1268. Lucy, daughter of Piers FitzHerbert, married Sir William de Ros of Helmsley-in-Holderness [alias Hamlake) (died c. 1264) who acquired the manor of 'Wyverthorp'. In about 1271 the manor was acquired by William de Brewes, Baron Braose of Gower, on his marriage with Mary de Ros.
Weaverthorpe was listed as being in the Wapentake of Buckrose which encompassed various villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is now in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire.
During the Second World War, MI6 secretly installed a new type of direction finding station in a field just south of the village, it consisted of an underground metal tank with an aerial protruding above rotated by the operator inside the tank. The station was used to find the locations of German secret service radio stations and their spies in Europe.
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