Buttercrambe

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Old grain mill in buttercrambe

Buttercrambe is a small village in the district of Ryedale , North Yorkshire , England. The village is about eight miles northeast of York on the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire . According to the census in 2001, there has about 100 inhabitants.

The center of the village is Aldby Hall and the Church of St. John the Evangelist. West of Buttercrambe are the remains of a short-term and quickly built Roman camp. It is believed to date from around AD 51. In the vicinity of the village there is also an abandoned castle called Buttercrambe Castle . It may was a medieval Motte from the year 1201. The bailey , however, was so largely redesigned so that a correct interpretation is difficult. Around 1633 the outer bailey served as a garden.

Importance for the English thoroughbred breed

Darley Arabian

Aldby Park , which is part of the village, was the seat of the Darley family. Thomas Darley , a member of the family who worked for the Levant Company in Aleppo , acquired the young Arabian stallion Darley Arabian from a nomadic Bedouin tribe in 1702 and exported him to his family at Aldby Hall in 1704. Christopher McGrath calls this transaction the most significant single transaction in the history of horse breeding. At Aldby Hall, the stallion mostly mated the comparatively few broodmares owned by the Darley family, some of whom were successful in horse races. The stallion became the founding father of the English thoroughbred through two matings with the broodmare Betty Leeds owned by Leonard Childers. Flying Childers , the stallion born in 1714 from this pairing, is considered to be one of the first true racehorses. Most of today's English thoroughbred horses do not go back to Darley Arabian through this stallion, but through his full brother Bleeding Childers , whose descendants include horses such as Squirt , Marske , Eclipse and Pot-8-os . Today 95 percent of all living English thoroughbreds can be traced back to this stallion.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey (2014). Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 105 York & Selby ' [map].
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: 1: 50,000 Scale Gazetteer (csv (download)) Ordnance Survey. September 9, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ Christopher McGrath: Mr. Darley's Arabian - High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses . John Murray, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-84854-984-5 . E-book position 333
  4. ↑ 95% of thoroughbreds linked to one superstud . In: New Scientist , September 6, 2005.