Seamer is a village and

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in the Hambleton district of

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, England, near the border with the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees and northwest of

Stokesley Stokesley is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, formerly a part of the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. It lies on the River Leven. An electoral ward, of the same name, stretches north to ...

. According to the 2011 census, the population of the village was 566, which

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estimated had dropped to 560 by 2015. Its name is first attested in the

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of 1086 as ''Semer(s)'', with later medieval attestations including ''Samara''. The first element is Old English ''sǣ'' 'lake'; the spelling of the second element suggests variation between Old English ''mere'' 'sea', Old English ''mersc'' 'marsh', and Old Norse ''marr'' 'lake, sea, pool'. The dominant meaning of the name therefore seems to have been 'lake by the sea'. This rural village supports a small farming community. There are two churches in the village, a Methodist chapel and St Martin's Church of England. St Martin's is an 1822 rebuild of a medieval church, which was located in the same place. It still retains some 14th-century stained glass and is now

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. The village also has the King's Head pub, and a duck pond on the village green.

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