Great Smeaton
Great Smeaton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on elevated ground near the River Wiske, which is a tributary of the River Swale. The parish population at the 2011 census was 187.Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 194 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Eloy’s Church and Sockburn Hall.
St Eloy’s Church
Church
Photo: Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Eloy's Church is an Anglican church in Great Smeaton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Great Smeaton at the time of the Domesday Book, and the font is from this period.
Sockburn Hall
Castle
Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sockburn Hall is a privately owned 19th-century country house at Sockburn, near Darlington, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. As at 2008, both the Hall and adjoining Grade II coach house were listed by English Heritage on the Buildings at Risk Register, as was the adjacent ruined Grade I Church of All Saints. Sockburn Hall is situated 1½ miles north of Great Smeaton.
St Peter’s Church, Birkby
Church
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St Peter's Church is the parish church of Birkby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. St Peter's Church was first built in the 12th century. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1776, and in 1872 the arched windows were replaced by Gothic windows, and a porch and bellcote were added. St Peter’s Church, Birkby is situated 1½ miles southwest of Great Smeaton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Smeaton and East Cowton.
Little Smeaton
Hamlet
Little Smeaton is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Hambleton District, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
East Cowton
Village
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East Cowton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is 7 miles north west of the county town of Northallerton. East Cowton is situated 2½ miles west of Great Smeaton.
Hutton Bonville
Hamlet
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Hutton Bonville is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was less than 100. Hutton Bonville is situated 2½ miles south of Great Smeaton.
Great Smeaton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Smeaton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.43459° or 54° 26′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.46635° or 1° 27′ 59″ westPopulation
194Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9C6WCGMM+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 387652839OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648020Wikidata ID
Q5599976
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Great Smeaton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Smeaton”
- Dutch: “Great Smeaton”
- French: “Great Smeaton”
- German: “Great Smeaton”
- Irish: “Great Smeaton”
- Polish: “Great Smeaton”
- Swedish: “Great Smeaton”
- Turkish: “Great Smeaton”
- “Great Smeaton”
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