Irton is a village and

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, south-west of

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in the county of

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, England. According to the

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, Irton parish had a population of 312, a decrease on the

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figure of 332. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the parish had a population of 310.

History

Irton is mentioned in the

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as belonging to William Percy, and within the old

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of Dic. It is recorded as ''Iretune'', which is partly from

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, meaning ''the farm of the Irishmen'' (or ''Irishman''). It has been recorded over the years with named variations such as ''I-,yrton, Hyrton,'' and ''Urton''. Historically, the village was a township in the Parish of Seamer, within the wapentake of Pickering Lythe (the later name for the wapentake of Dic). The village and surrounding area became their own separate civil parish after 1866 in the old North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1974, it was moved from Scarborough Rural District to the Borough of Scarborough as a standalone parish. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the

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, it is now administered by the unitary

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. The village is represented in the UK Parliament as part of the Scarborough and Whitby Constituency. Part of the village clustered around Main Street was designated as a conservation in 1984. The village is host to a waterworks which takes water from a local aquifer via a borehole dug deep. The plant was built in the 1880s to provide water to the Scarborough area. The plant had a siding off the now closed Forge Valley, which supplied coal for the boilers producing steam to work the beam engines pumping water.

Population

‡ Estimated.

References

External links

Historical parish boundary
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