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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 main operating site of the Wensleydale Railway. It is in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire.

Leeming Bar
Leeming Bar
Leeming Bar is located in North Yorkshire
Leeming Bar
Leeming Bar
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE287900
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNORTHALLERTON
Postcode districtDL7
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°18′18″N 1°33′36″W / 54.30504°N 1.55998°W / 54.30504; -1.55998

Governance edit

Historically Leeming Bar was a hamlet in the wapentake of Hallikeld and a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Gatenby.[1] An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Kirkby Fleetham with a total population of approximately 1800 (as of 2005) and of 1,966 at the 2011 census.[2] Leeming Bar was in the Hambleton District until April 2023, when the regional areas of North Yorkshire were subsumed into one unitary authority.[3]

Geography edit

Leeming Bar's name is derived from the fact that it housed a Toll-House with a barrier that travellers were expected to pay at for onward travel beyond the barrier.[4] Around 1840, the barrier was moved further south towards Leeming village, as a quirk in the local bye-laws meant that people did not have to pay for travelling within 150 yards (140 m) of the crossroads on either Dere Street or the Bedale to Northallerton road.[5] The original Great North Road through Leeming Bar is known as Leeming Lane, a name it retains all the way between Boroughbridge and Catterick.[6] The Roman Road through Leeming Bar took a slightly different route than today's Leeming Lane, as it took a straight line from the church in Leeming village, crossing Bedale Beck at point just west of Leeming Bridge, and headed in a straight line to the current crossroads in the village of Leeming Bar. The s-curve that Leeming Lane takes over Bedale Beck is thought to have been done to improvements made to the road when it was turnpiked in the 1740s.[7]

Located just to east of the A1(M) motorway[8] and near RAF Leeming, it is home to the main depot of the Wensleydale Railway at Leeming Bar railway station[9] as well as the Dales & District bus company. It was first bypassed in 1961, again in 2012, and lies on the Roman road Dere Street. It is approximately 0.93 miles (1.5 km) along the old A684 from the village of Aiskew and 7 miles (11 km) along the same road from the town of Northallerton.[10] The A684 bypass was opened up in August 2016.[11]

Amenities edit

It used to have a C of E church, St Augustine's, which was last used for religious services in 2010.[12] The tied C of E primary School has an enrolment of 50 pupils. In 2023, Ofsted rated the school as Good, whereas it had been labelled as requires improvement since 2017.[13][14] There are three pubs, two of which, the Reubens Inn on Bedale Road,[15] and the Corner House are also hotels. A new Co-op store was opened up at the junction of Roman Road and Bedale Road in the village in July 2017.[16]

 
Services on the A6055 road at Leeming Bar

The Leeming Bar service station was set up at the junction of the old A1 road and the A684 road on the western edge of the village in 1961. In 2012, it won an appeal to become an official motorway service station and was sold to Moto in 2014.[17] The Services now lie on the adjacent A6055 local access road that has a junction with the A1(M) just to the north of Leeming Bar (junction 51).

A second service station with access to the A684 and the A1(M) at junction 51 was opened at Coneygarth in December 2014.[18] The Coneygarth Truck Stop is run by Exelby Services who closed down their refuelling point in nearby Londonderry to run the new service station.[19][20] The site is just to the north of Leeming Bar village.[21] However, both Coneygarth and Leeming Bar services are not officially designated as Motorway Service Areas (MSAs) by the government, which has allowed other newer service areas to be developed elsewhere along the A1(M) corridor in North Yorkshire.[22]

Industry edit

An industrial agricultural business trades alongside the main road in Leeming Bar. John H Gill & Son have been in the village since 1937 when they bought out the foundry of F Mattison & Co. Run by William Mattison, the company made much agricultural machinery at their foundry which was built on railway land at Leeming Bar. However, the company was known mostly for its cast-iron mileposts, of which about 100 survive across North Yorkshire.[23][24]

 
The John Gill works

Leeming Bar is host to an industrial estate that houses, among other things, the headquarters of Froneri, who make Fab and Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies.[25] Cawingredients also have a soft drink manufacturing plant on the industrial estate covering over 10,400 square metres (112,000 sq ft).[26] A household waste recycling site is also on the industrial estate.[27][28]

The Vale of Mowbray food factory was also in the village. The factory had suffered two fires in the 21st century; in 2002 a major fire caused an industrial oven to explode and led to the company being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive.[29] In 2017, another fire led to 10,000 smoke damaged pork pies being destroyed by the company.[30] The factory was closed down in September 2022.[31]

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Leeming Bar 2011 Census Ward (1237325070)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ^ Minting, Stuart (1 April 2023). "Day one of the 'huge new local unitary council'". The Yorkshire Post. p. 6. ISSN 0963-1496.
  4. ^ Lloyd, Chris (10 July 2015). "It's a long way to Londonderry..." The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  5. ^ Speight, Harry (1897). Romantic Richmondshire. London: E Stock. p. 149. OCLC 252008733.
  6. ^ Smith 1979, p. 1.
  7. ^ Gourley, B.; Pinnock, D. (2012). "Leeming Lane/ Northallerton Road, Leeming Bar. Report on a Geophysical Survey". On Site Archaeology: 7. doi:10.5284/1036972.
  8. ^ Wilson, Laura (21 September 2017). "Relief as first section of A1(M) missing link opens". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  9. ^ Breen, Julia (20 May 2013). "Quirky, with a heart of oak". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  10. ^ "302" (Map). Northallerton & Thirsk. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 9780319245545.
  11. ^ "New £35m bypass opens two months early". BBC News. 11 August 2016. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  12. ^ "Plaques to move if church is closed". The Northern Echo. 24 August 2010. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Inspection of Aiskew, Leeming Bar Church of England Primary School" (PDF). aiskewleemingbar.org/. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  14. ^ "Aiskew, Leeming Bar Church of England Primary School URN: 121472". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 9 July 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  15. ^ "New hotel chief has five-year plan for success". York Press. 21 July 2011. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  16. ^ Copeland, Alexa (30 July 2017). "15 jobs created as groceries store opens". Darlington and Stockton Times. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  17. ^ Flanagan, Emily (5 February 2014). "North Yorkshire family-run service station sold to national operator". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  18. ^ Boulton, Merrill (April 2015). "The forecourt site saga". Forecourt Trader. p. 26. ISSN 0957-9117.
  19. ^ Bridgen, Mike (18 December 2014). "New £4.4m truck stop opens at Exelby Services on the A1M". Darlington and Stockton Times. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  20. ^ Wood, John (13 May 2015). "Exelby Services celebrates opening new site - Forecourt Trader". Forecourt Trader. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  21. ^ "Exelby Services Coneygarth Leases Road Leeming Bar North Yorkshire DL7 9EG". planning.hambleton.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 March 2024. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  22. ^ Mitchinson, James, ed. (15 December 2021). "'Quirk' may allow new M-way services". The Yorkshire Post. p. 6. ISSN 0963-1496.
  23. ^ Heywood, Richard. "The Mattison mileposts of the North Riding". www.yorkshire-milestones.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  24. ^ Aithinson, Gavin (28 October 2008). "Stolen sign found for sale on internet". York Press. Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  25. ^ "Froneri UK, the new name in ice-cream, frozen food and chilled dairy". www.froneri.uk.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  26. ^ Addy, Rod (May 2010). "New soft drinks firm opens Leeming Bar site". Food Manufacture. Vol. 85, no. 5. p. 5. ISSN 0015-6477.
  27. ^ "Leeming Bar household waste recycling centre". North Yorkshire County Council. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  28. ^ Prest, Victoria (21 March 2016). "Opening times to be cut next week at 20 local waste centres". York Press. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  29. ^ Dooks, Brian (2 June 2003). "Pie maker fined over explosion at factory". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  30. ^ Newton, Grace (15 December 2017). "Thousands of pork pies destroyed in Yorkshire factory fire". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  31. ^ Jacob, Liana (12 April 2023). "Yorkshire factory Vale of Mowbray closed seven months before appearing on BBC Two show". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.

Sources edit

  • Smith, A. H. (1979) [1928]. The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire. English Place Name Society. OCLC 19714705.

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