Aiskew and Leeming Bar is a civil parish within the
Bedale
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. The dale has a predominant agriculture sector and its related small traditional t ...
ward of
North Yorkshire
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, England. The parish only has two settlements (
Aiskew
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.
History
Remains of a Roman villa were unearthe ...
and
Leeming Bar
Leeming Bar is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village lay on the original Great North Road (Dere Street) before being bypassed. It is now home to a large industrial estate and the mai ...
), but prior to the changes in the 19th century, the area it contains belonged to the parish of Bedale. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 2,427.
History
Aiskew village is mentioned in the
Domesday Book
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, but Leeming Bar came about after the Domesday survey, being a point on the crossroads of the
Great North Road and the turnpike road to
Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, England. It lies within the River Kent's dale, from which its name is derived, just outside the boundary of t ...
.
A large part of the parish on the western, southern, and eastern sides has a boundary division through
Bedale Beck; This means that certain buildings deemed to be in Bedale, such as the Bedale signalbox and
railway station
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and the Leech House, are actually within the parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar.
A bypass for the
A684 road
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between Leeming Bar and Bedale was built in 2016 to connect with Junction 51 of the
A1(M) motorway
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. At that time, over 14,000 vehicles a day were using the road, which significantly reduced traffic flow through Leeming Bar and Aiskew (on a west-east axis). There are only two settlements in the parish: Aiskew and Leeming Bar. An area of the parish known as Aiskew Moor is in the planning stages to be developed from fields into an industrial estate. Between 2010 and 2021, new housing estates have been built in the parish; between 2013 and 2015, the number of houses increased by 25% (up from 962 to 1,200).
Local authority
Aiskew and Leeming Bar civil parish is part of the Bedale Ward of North Yorkshire Council. At the 2011 census, the ward had a population of 4,606. Historically, it was in the
Liberty of Richmondshire and the
wapentake
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of
Hang East
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, though it was not separated out from the large Bedale Parish of until 1866. Previous to becoming its own parish, when it was within Bedale Parish, it was afforded the status of
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
. The Aiskew township also consisted of the hamlet of ''Little Leeming'', which was another name for Leeming Bar.
At the 2001 census (which lists the parish simply as ''Aiskew''), the population was 2,136. At the 2011 census, this had increased to 2,427.
In 2015,
North Yorkshire County Council
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estimated that the number had dropped to 2,310.
The Aiskew and Leeming Bar Parish Council was under threat in the 2003 local elections after several members did not stand for re-election. This stemmed from a government ruling about declarations of interest by local councillors. Also, in 2017, an unsuccessful petition called for the amalgamation of the parish council with Bedale Parish Council. In 2018, a request was passed to Hambleton District Council (HDC) to rename the parish from simply ''Aiskew'' to ''Aiskew and Leeming Bar''. The request for the name change, which was granted, was because the new name would reflect the actual geographical area of the parish.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of
Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary
North Yorkshire Council
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.
See also
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Listed buildings in Aiskew and Leeming Bar
References
External links
{{Commons category
Parish map and boundariesAiskew and Leeming Bar Parish Council PageList of powers of the parish council1948 map showing the parish simply as ''Aiskew''
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire