{{short description|Village and civil parish near Selby, North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53|49|07|N|1|15|19|W|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Barkston Ash | static_image_name = File:Barkston Ash stone 11 July 2018.jpg | static_image_caption = Boundary stone on junction of Main Street with the A162 road | population = 370 | population_ref = (2011 census)<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=1170217377|title=Barkston Ash Parish |accessdate=10 March 2018}}</ref> | civil_parish = Barkston Ash | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = | post_town = TADCASTER | postcode_district = LS24 | postcode_area = LS | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SE491361 }}
'''Barkston Ash''' is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly known as '''Barkston''', in the West Riding of Yorkshire.<ref name=Lewis>{{cite web |url=https://ukga.org/lewis_eng/B/897.html |title=Barkston |last=Lewis |first=Samuel |website=ukga.org |publisher=UK Genealogy Archives |access-date=12 July 2018 |quote=Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, published in 1848.}}</ref><ref name=Bark>{{cite web |url=http://barkstonash.co.uk/index.php/about |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712215320/http://barkstonash.co.uk/index.php/about |url-status=usurped |archive-date=12 July 2018 |title=About Barkston Ash |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=barkstonash.co.uk |publisher=Barkston Ash Parish Council |access-date=12 July 2018 }}</ref> In 2011 the parish had a population of 370.
==History== The name Barkston derives from the Old Norse personal name ''Barkr'' or ''Borkr'' and the Old English ''tūn'' meaning 'settlement'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Yorkshire+WR/Barkston|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|accessdate=2 October 2025}}</ref> The village dates back to at least 1090, when it was spelled Barcestone.<ref name=Bark/> The village previously gave its name to the former wapentake of Barkston Ash.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Langdale|first1=Thomas|title=A topographical dictionary of Yorkshire; containing the names of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemen's seats, &c. in the county of York|url=https://archive.org/details/atopographicald01langgoog|date=1822|page=[https://archive.org/details/atopographicald01langgoog/page/n166 149]|publisher=Langdale J|location=Northallerton|oclc=5211910}}</ref> The Ash part of the name comes from a large ash tree said to be at the approximate centre of the ancient county of Yorkshire, where meetings for the wapentake would be held.<ref name=Lewis/><ref name=NYVB>{{cite book |last=North Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes |date=1991 |title=North Yorkshire Village Book |publisher=Countryside Books |page=26 |isbn=978-1853061370 }}</ref> From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Selby District, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
What is now the A162 London Road was a turnpike constructed in 1769: the Main Street and the major part of the village goes East from the junction with this.<ref name=NYVB/>
On 14 October 1976 the parish was renamed from "Barkston" to "Barkston Ash".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/selby.html|title=Selby Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=8 May 2024}}</ref>
Barkston Ash was also the name of the local parliamentary constituency of Barkston Ash until 1983, when its boundaries were redrawn to divide the area into Elmet and Selby.<ref name=Bark/>
==Features== The village contains a small Church of England church, Holy Trinity originally a chapel of ease constructed in 1880, but given its current name and status in 1974.<ref name=NYVB/> There are two pubs, the Ash Tree (on the site of a former coaching inn) and the Boot and Shoe, a village hall and a primary school (dating from 1856).<ref name=School>{{cite web |url=http://barkstonash.n-yorks.sch.uk/page.php?id=1966 |title=Barkston Ash Catholic Primary School |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=barkstonash.n-yorks.sch.uk |access-date=26 April 2019 }}</ref> There were formerly two shops and a post office on Main Street, now private residences.<ref name=Bark/>
There are three 17th to 19th century stone Grade II listed building houses near the junction of Main Street and Church Street: Laurel Farm,<ref name=NHLE1148434>{{NHLE| num =1148434| desc= Laurel Farm|access-date = 12 July 2018}}</ref> Barkston House,<ref name=NHLE1316334>{{NHLE| num =1316334| desc= Barkston House|access-date = 12 July 2018}}</ref> and Turpin Hall Farm.<ref name=NHLE1148433>{{NHLE| num =1148433| desc= Turpin Hall Farm|access-date = 12 July 2018}}</ref>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Barkston Ash
<gallery> File:Ash Tree Barkston Ash 11 July 2018.jpg|Ash Tree pub File:Boot and Shoe Barkston Ash 11 July 2018.jpg|Boot and Shoe pub File:Barkston Ash post office 11 July 2018.jpg|Former post office File:Church of the Holy Trinity, Barkston Ash.jpg|Holy Trinity Church </gallery>
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==External links== {{commons category|Barkston Ash}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180713142154/http://www.barkstonash.co.uk/index.php Barston Ash village website]}} * [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sherburninelmet/index.html The Ancient Parish of Sherburn in Elmet] at GENUKI: Barkston Ash was in this parish
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