Akebar

{{Short description|Township and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Ruins at Akebar.jpg | static_image_caption = The folly and ruins at the entrance to the campsite | coordinates = {{coord|54.3103|-1.71165|display=inline,title}} | label_position = left | official_name = Akebar | population = | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = | post_town = LEYBURN | postcode_district = DL8 | postcode_area = DL | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SE188905 }} '''Akebar''' is a township and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about eight miles south of Richmond. It consists of a caravan site, as well as several farm houses, a public house and folly. The civil parish as a whole consists of several farm houses. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. Information regarding the combined statistics can be found in the parish of Finghall.

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

==History== The name of Akebar is Danish in origin and is one of Yorkshire's lost villages. It was a village settlement even before the Viking invasion when James the Deacon, a disciple of St. Paulinus, established an early church at Akebar in the 7th century AD. The present church of St. Andrew, on the edge of the park, was built in the 11th century on the position of the first church. It is still an active and well loved church.<ref name=VoBtT>{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11112 |title= A Vision of Britain Through Time: Akebar |publisher=GB Historical GIS/University of Portsmouth |access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>

The township of Akebar was mentioned in the records of Jervaulx Abbey in 1290. It remained a grange farm for Jervaulx, a daughter monastery of the Cistercian Order at Fountains Abbey, until the dissolution of the monasteries around 1530. The Abbot and Monks of Jervaulx were well known for their excellent cheese, named Wensleydale, and famous for the breeding of horses of exceptional quality and bravery. It is recorded that a large number of their brood mares were kept at the grange farms at Akebar.<ref>{{cite book|title= Parishes: Fingall, in A History of the County of York North Riding |volume=1|editor= William Page |location=London |publisher=Victoria County History |date=1914 |pages= 232–236|url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp232-236 | access-date= 21 October 2017 |via=British History Online}}</ref>

== Akebar Park == Akebar Park is a caravan park located in Yorkshire county.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Holiday Parks in Yorkshire |url=https://akebarpark.com/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Akebar Park |language=en-GB}}</ref> The park contains an 18 hole golf course. The park is planning to remove nine holes from its golf course to provide land for 27 holiday homes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yorkshire course to halve holes to save costs |url=https://www.thegolfbusiness.co.uk/2023/01/yorkshire-course-to-halve-holes-to-save-costs/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Golf Club Management |date=4 January 2023 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==See also== *Listed buildings in Akebar

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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire