Kellington
Kellington is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Aire. Situated almost equidistant between the towns of Pontefract and Selby, the village dates back to at least the 11th century when it was listed in the Domesday Book.Photo: Simon Dean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 991 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kellington, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington and Kellington Windmill.
Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington, is a grade I listed 12th century church in the village of Kellington, North Yorkshire, England. Excavations at the site have revealed the 14th century tomb related to the Knights Templar, and in the 1990s, the foundations of the church were underpinned because of possible subsidence effects from the nearby Kellingley Colliery.
Kellington Windmill
Windmill
Kellington Windmill is a historic building in Kellington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The windmill was built in about 1800, to grind corn.
Whitley Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles east of Leeds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eggborough and Beal.
Eggborough
Village
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggborough is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding.
Beal
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beal is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Aire, 3.5 miles north-east of Knottingley, 8 miles south-west of Selby, and 21 miles south of York.
Whitley
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census. Whitley is situated 2 miles south of Kellington.
Kellington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Kellington, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.71676° or 53° 43′ 0″ northLongitude
-1.16514° or 1° 9′ 55″ westPopulation
991Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KLGOpen location code
9C5WPR8M+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 560471585OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Kellington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kellington”
- Dutch: “Kellington”
- French: “Kellington”
- Irish: “Kellington”
- Ladin: “Kellington”
- Polish: “Kellington”
- Spanish: “Kellington”
- Swedish: “Kellington”
- Turkish: “Kellington”
- “Kellington”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kellington Village Hall and Roall Plantation.
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