Sawdon

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Sawdon
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Main street through Sawdon
Sawdon is located in North Yorkshire
Sawdon
Sawdon
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE943848
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District
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Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSCARBOROUGH
Postcode districtYO13
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54°15′02″N 0°33′12″W / 54.250599°N 0.553414°W / 54.250599; -0.553414Coordinates: 54°15′02″N 0°33′12″W / 54.250599°N 0.553414°W / 54.250599; -0.553414

Sawdon is a village in the civil parish of Brompton in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) west of Scarborough.[1] As the population is less than 100, details are included in the data for Brompton Parish.[2]

The village lies 1.75 miles (3 km) north of Brompton, which is on the A170 road connecting Pickering with Scarborough.[3] It lies at the northern edge of the Vale of Pickering with Hackness Forest and the North York Moors National Park directly to the north of the village.[4]

Whilst the village is not mentioned specifically by name in the Domesday Book, its name is recorded as far back as 1290 as Saldene, which means Sallow Valley.[5] However, the manor of Sawdon was included in the Domesday survey for the area in and around Brompton.[6] No churches were built in the village, but in 1823, a Wesleyan chapel was erected on the main road through the settlement.[7] This is now a private dwelling.[8]

From 2012 Sawdon Village Hall was selected as the site for fundraising events by the charity Astronomy Wise. These events see a large gathering of astronomers and visitors at the building throughout the year. Regular meetings usually take place on the second Friday of every month excluding the summer months.[7]

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  1. ^ "Genuki: BROMPTON BY SAWDON, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Brompton Parish (E04007660)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Genuki: Brompton By Sawdon, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Scarborough Landscape Study: Volume 1 – Borough wide Landscape Character Assessment" (PDF). scarborough.gov.uk. 2013. pp. 93–97. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 405. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  6. ^ "Parishes: Brompton | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ a b Robinson, Maureen (27 November 2015). "Your Day Out: Perfect for crisp cold days". The Scarborough News. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Genuki: The ex-Wesleyan Chapel, Sawdon, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.

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