Ingleby Greenhow is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Hambleton district of
North Yorkshire
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, England. It is on the border of the
North York Moors
The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England. It contains one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. The area was designated as a National Park in 1952, through the National Parks and A ...
and south of
Great Ayton
Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The River Leven (a tributary of the River Tees) flows through the village, which lies just north of the North York Moors.
Etymology
Great Ayton's ...
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The parish of Ingleby Greenhow has records of a John Thomasson de Grenehow, a member of the clergy, who in 1376 "''had to appear before a Commission appointed to be tried with several others for either poaching or cutting down timber, or destroying property belonging to Peter de Malo Luca the 6th, of Mulgrave Castle''".
The name may derive from the Saxon for Englishman's green hill. How, derived from the
Old Norse
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word ''haugr'', means hill or mound. The manor was bought by a Scottish courtier
David Foulis in 1608. The parish church, St Andrew, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1741, but has an early Norman chancel arch inside.
In 1931, British altitude and distance records for gliders were established over the moors near here, as recounted by the novelist, pilot, and aeronautical engineer
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect ...
in his memoir, ''
Slide Rule
The slide rule is a mechanical analog computer which is used primarily for multiplication and division, and for functions such as exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry. It is not typically designed for addition or subtraction, which is ...
''. The glider, a
Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated as a subgroup of the family Laridae which includes gulls and skimmers and consists o ...
produced by Shute's company,
Airspeed Ltd.
Airspeed Limited was established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist, who used his forenames as his pen-name). The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, ...
was flown by a skilled German sailplane pilot, Carl Magersuppe, who had been hired by Airspeed.
Sport
Ingleby Greenhow Cricket Club has a history dating back to the mid nineteenth century. It once featured in a calendar comprising England's most picturesque cricket pitches. The club's ground is situated half a kilometer west of the village, on the north side of Marsh Lane. The club have two senior teams: a Saturday 1st XI that compete in the
Langbaurgh Cricket League Langbaurgh () may refer to
* Langbaurgh, North Yorkshire, a hamlet near Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England
* Langbaurgh (district), a local government district in Cleveland, England from 1974 to 1988, renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees from 1988 to 199 ...
and a Midweek Senior XI in the Esk Valley Evening League.
References
External links
Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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