For the location in Cumbria, see Irton with Santon.
Irton
CountryEngland
Coordinates54.243°N 0.4508°W
Population310
Civil parishIrton
Unitary englandNorth Yorkshire
Lieutenancy englandNorth Yorkshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Constituency westminsterScarborough and Whitby
Post townSCARBOROUGH
Postcode districtYO12
Postcode areaYO
Os grid referenceTA010841
Static image nameIrton Pumping Station.jpg

Irton is a village and civil parish, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Scarborough in the county of North Yorkshire, England.[1] According to the 2011 UK census, Irton parish had a population of 312,[2] a decrease on the 2001 UK census figure of 332.[3] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the parish had a population of 310.[4]

History

Irton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to William Percy, and within the old wapentake of Dic.[5] It is recorded as Iretune, which is partly from Old Norse, meaning the farm of the Irishmen (or Irishman). It has been recorded over the years with named variations such as I-,yrton, Hyrton, and Urton.[6][7]

Historically, the village was a township in the Parish of Seamer, within the wapentake of Pickering Lythe (the later name for the wapentake of Dic).[8] The village and surrounding area became their own separate civil parish after 1866 in the old North Riding of Yorkshire,[9] and in 1974, it was moved from Scarborough Rural District to the Borough of Scarborough as a standalone parish.[10] From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Scarborough, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.[11] The village is represented in the UK Parliament as part of the Scarborough and Whitby Constituency.[12]

Part of the village clustered around Main Street was designated as a conservation in 1984.[13] The village is host to a waterworks which takes water from a local aquifer via a borehole dug 428 feet (130 m) deep.[14] The plant was built in the 1880s to provide water to the Scarborough area.[15][16] The plant had a siding off the now closed Forge Valley, which supplied coal for the boilers producing steam to work the beam engines pumping water.[17]

Population

Population of Irton 1811–2015[18][19][4][2][3]
1811182118311841185118611871188118911901191119211931195119611971200120112015
94105107134118125124148163148140182133200245298332312310‡

‡ Estimated.

References

  1. ^ Bartholomew gazetteer of places in Britain. Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew. 1986. p. 129. ISBN 0-7028-0731-1.
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  3. ^ "2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Irton CP (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2008.
  4. ^ "2015 Population Estimates: Parishes". northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 17. Archived from the original on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  5. ^ "Irton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  6. ^ Smith, A. H. (1979 [1928]). The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire. English Place Name Society. pp. 101–102. OCLC 19714705
  7. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names. 4 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 266. OCLC 1228215388
  8. ^ "Genuki: Seamer, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  9. ^ Youngs, Frederic A. (1991). Guide to the local administrative units of England. University College, London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society. p. 566. ISBN 0-8619-3127-0.
  10. ^ Guide No. 6: North Yorkshire Gazetteer of Townships and Parishes. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Council. 2021. p. 18. ISBN 0 906035 29 5.
  11. ^ "North Yorkshire Council: New local authority begins work". BBC News. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  12. ^ "Election maps". ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025. Click on the boundary tab on the left and activate Civil Parish and Westminster Constituencies
  13. ^ "Conservation areas". www.northyorks.gov.uk. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  14. ^ A Guide to Historic Scarborough. Scarborough: Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society. 2003. p. 41. ISBN 0-902-41607-3.
  15. ^ Kelly, Tom & Bean, Daniel (1 October 2018). "Irton WTW (2018) |". waterprojectsonline.com. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  16. ^ "Irton Waterworks | Forge Valley Railway". www.forgevalleyrailway.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  17. ^ Lidster, J. Robin (2014). Scarborough to pickering railway through time: through time; featuring the forge valley line. Chalford: Amberley Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 9781445618272.
  18. ^ The Victoria history of the county of York. vol 3. London: Constable & Co. 1907. p. 520. OCLC 500092527
  19. ^ "Irton Tn/CP". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.