# Muscoates

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**Muscoates** is a hamlet and former [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish), now in the parish of [Nunnington](/source/Nunnington), in [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire), England. It lies on the [River Riccal](/source/River_Riccal), 4 miles (6 km) to the south of the town of [Kirkbymoorside](/source/Kirkbymoorside).

## Heritage

Muscoates is first mentioned in a 12th-century document. The name derives either from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) *mūsa cotes*, meaning "mouse-ridden cottages", or from an [Old Norse](/source/Old_Norse) personal name *Músi*.[1] Muscoates was a [township](/source/Township_(England)) in the ancient parish of [Kirkdale](/source/Kirkdale,_North_Yorkshire),[2] and became a separate [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in 1866.[3]

Muscoates was a small parish with an area of 1,045 acres (423 ha) and a population of 23 in 1961.[4]

In 1974 it became part of the new district of [Ryedale](/source/Ryedale), and on 1 April 1986 the parish was abolished and merged with Nunnington.[5] Ryedale was abolished in 2023 and the area is now administered by [North Yorkshire Council](/source/North_Yorkshire_Council).

## Singular writer

[Sir Herbert Read](/source/Sir_Herbert_Read), the poet and art critic, was born at Muscoates in 1893, the son of a farmer. His fantasy novel *[The Green Child](/source/The_Green_Child)* (1935) was described by the critic [Geoffrey Wheatcroft](/source/Geoffrey_Wheatcroft) in 1993 as "singular, odd, completely original".[6]

## References

1. Watts, Victor (ed.) (2010), "Muscoates", *The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names*, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978 0 521 16855 7

1. Page, William (ed.) (1914). ["Parishes: Kirkdale"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64795). *[Victoria County History](/source/Victoria_County_History). A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1*. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 26 August 2014.

1. ["Vision of Britain:relationships and changes"](http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10455601/relationships). Retrieved 26 August 2014.

1. ["Vision of Britain: 1961 census report"](http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table_page.jsp?tab_id=EW1961COU_M3&u_id=10455601&show=DB). Retrieved 26 August 2014.

1. ["The Ryedale (Parishes) Order 1985"](https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/12097/ryedale-parishes-order-1985.pdf). [Local Government Boundary Commission for England](/source/Local_Government_Boundary_Commission_for_England). Retrieved 13 December 2021.

1. Wheatcroft, Geoffrey (11 December 1993). ["Off the Shelf: Trailing baroque clouds of glory: Geoffrey Wheatcroft ponders Herbert Read's entrancing novel, The Green Child"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/off-the-shelf-trailing-baroque-clouds-of-glory-geoffrey-wheatcroft-ponders-herbert-reads-entrancing-novel-the-green-child-1466774.html). *The Independent*. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/off-the-shelf-trailing-baroque-clouds-of-glory-geoffrey-wheatcroft-ponders-herbert-reads-entrancing-novel-the-green-child-1466774.html) 18 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 October 2009.

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