Easingwold
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ N , 1 ° 11 ′ W
Easingwold is a small market town in the district of Hambleton in the county of North Yorkshire in the region Yorkshire and Humbrien in England , UK . It has 4,230 inhabitants.
It is 13 miles north of York , at the foot of the Howard Hills , an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty . The name Easingwold is of Old English origin. King Johann Ohneland had a hunting lodge here. The area was surrounded by the Royal Forests of Galtres (no longer a forest today).
Shirley Shepherd is currently the local council chairwoman and mayor of Easingwold. In November 1994 the A19 was built around Easingwold. Easingwold's school is the largest in the area and has around 1,300 students.
Easingwold has several bus connections to neighboring villages, towns and the city of York.
Personalities
- Steve Webster (* 1960), former motorcycle racer and ten-time world champion in the sidecar class
Trivia
The gunsmith Clemishaw, who invented a body thief deterrent, lived in Easingwold, and Laurence Sterne whose body was stolen.
literature
- Hartley, KE, (1970), The Easingwold Railway , (Revised Redman, RN: 1991), Locomotion Papers No. 46, The Oakwood Press, ISBN 0-85361-413-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ To secure corpses in the coffin against theft. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 32, 1829, Miszelle 30, p. 151.
- ^ Stillington: Visit Easingwold
