Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry

Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains three villages – Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry – and RAF Leeming Royal Air Force station.

Type: Locality with 2,010 residents
Description: civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK
Also known as: “Exelby (civil parish), North Yorkshire”, “Exelby, Leeming and Newton”, and “Exelby, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include RAF Leeming and Leeming Bar railway station.

RAF Leeming

Aerodrome

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Royal Air Force Leeming or more simply RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Leeming Bar railway station

Railway station

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Leeming Bar railway station is a railway station in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, England. It is the penultimate eastern rail passenger station of the Wensleydale Railway, though the line continues towards Northallerton.

St John the Baptist’s Church, Leeming

Church

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St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Leeming, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel was first constructed in Leeming in 1424, with a bequest from a traveller who had fallen ill in the village.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedale and Aiskew.

Bedale

Town

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Bedale, is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales. Bedale is situated 2½ miles west of Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry.

Aiskew

Village

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Aiskew is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated to the immediate north-east of Bedale and separated from it by Bedale Beck.