Exelby is a village in the county of

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, England. It is south-east of

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 ...

and west of the

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and is part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry (formerly Exelby, Leeming and Newton) 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. The ...

. The civil parish had a total of 2,788 residents at the time of the 2011 census, though Exelby had only 80 homes. The name of the village derives from

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and means ''Eskil's farm'' or ''Eskil's settlement''. Exelby

In the 1086 ''

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'' Exelby is noted as Aschilebi, with only one man but 20 ploughlands, and in the

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's Land of Count Alan. In 1066 Merleswein the Sheriff was

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, which by 1086 had been transferred to Robert of Moutiers, with Count Alan of Brittany as

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. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary

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. The village lies on the B6285, which connects Bedale with Exelby, Theakston,

Burneston Burneston is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 244, increasing to 311 at the 2011 Census. The village is close to the A1(M) road and is about south-east of Bedale. H ...

and the

A6055 The A6055 is a stretch of road in North Yorkshire that runs from Knaresborough to Boroughbridge, with a break, then starts up again at Junction 50 of the A1(M) to run parallel with A1(M) acting as a Local Access Road (LAR) going between Junctio ...

road just east of Burneston. In October 2018 the residents of the village, along with other community investors, bought the closed village pub, The Green Dragon. It was revamped and renamed Exelby Green Dragon (EGD), reopening in December 2018. Since then a deli-cafe, high quality letting rooms and a lottery funded community garden (incorporating the pub garden) have been added. The pub also acts as a community hub, accommodating local groups and serving as a base for a folk club.

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