{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|54|15|43|N|0|51|32|W|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Sinnington | static_image = Sinnington Bridge.jpg | static_image_width = 250px | static_image_caption = The bridge across the River Seven at Sinnington | population = 287 | population_ref = (2011 census)<ref name="2011 census"/> | civil_parish = Sinnington | unitary_england = North Yorkshire | lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = Thirsk and Malton | post_town = YORK | postcode_district = YO62 | postcode_area = YO | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SE744857 }} [[File:Sinnington All Saints Church March 2007 (Nigel Coates).jpg|thumb|left|All Saints' Church, Sinnington]] '''Sinnington''' is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.ryedale.gov.uk/pdf/Sinnington_Ward_Profile.pdf |title=Sinnington Ward Profile |publisher=Ryedale District Council |access-date=29 May 2009 }} </ref> It is located on the southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park.
According to the 2001 UK census, the parish has a total population of 318 people living in 148 households,<ref name="2001 census">{{cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=798153&c=Sinnington&d=16&e=15&g=476633&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1243613731139&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title = 2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Sinnington CP (Parish) |access-date = 29 May 2009 |work = Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher = Office for National Statistics }} </ref> reduced to a population of 287, at the 2011 Census.<ref name="2011 census">{{NOMIS2011|id=1170217295|title=Sinnington Parish |accessdate=29 April 2018}}</ref>
The name Sinnington probably derives from the Old English ''Seveningtūn'' meaning 'settlement associated with the River Seven'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Yorkshire%20NR/Sinnington|title=Sinnington |website=Key to English Place-Names |publisher=The Institute for Name-Studies |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref>
The nineteenth century agricultural writer, William Marshall, was born here in 1745.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/stead.marshall |title = EH.Net Encyclopedia: William Marshall |publisher = eh.net |access-date = 26 May 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091002111148/http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/stead.marshall |archive-date = 2 October 2009 |df = dmy-all }} </ref> The village was formerly served by a railway station on the Gilling and Pickering (G&P) railway line which opened in 1875 and closed on 31 January 1953 for both passengers and freight.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Railways of Ryedale| first = Patrick| last = Howat|year=2004| publisher=Bairstow Publishing | isbn=1-871944-29-5|page=112}}</ref>
Typical of the area are the medieval cruck-built longhouses of Sinnington. These were constructed as single storey combined dwelling and beast houses and made of the local Jurassic limestone. Originally they had ling thatched roofs, but they were mostly re-roofed in the 19th century with grey slate or red pantiles.<ref name=Hartley>{{cite book | last = Hartley | first = Marie | first2 = Joan | last2 = Ingilby |authorlink2=Joan Ingilby| title = Life in the Moorlands of North East Yorkshire | publisher = J M Dent and Sons Ltd | year = 1972 | location = London | isbn = 0-460-03961-X}}</ref> All Saints' Church, Sinnington, has in its fabric an assemblage of dozens of fragments of pre-Norman crosses and hogback fragments scattered all over the building, inside and out. It appears that several - perhaps the numbers even reach double figures - significant crosses were broken up in order to provide building stone for the twelfth-century workers who built the church.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/ctm/ctm-sinnington.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706192611/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/ctm/ctm-sinnington.htm |archive-date=6 July 2008 |title=Pre-Norman Stone Crosses in the British Isles - Sinnington |website=Crossing the Millennia |access-date=23 February 2015 |date=February 2003 |last=Tolley |first=Chris }} </ref>
Catherine Parr was resident in the manor of Sinnington, as Lady Latimer, between 1534 and 1543. She was the second wife of John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer. The manor in nearby Nunnington was owned by her brother William Parr. [[File:Sinnington Barrow located in a Barrow Cemetery in North Yorkshire.jpg|thumb|A lidar view of Sinnington Bronze Age round barrow which is located in a barrow cemetery]]
==Governance== An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Brawby with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,685.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=1237325166|title=Sinnington 2011 Census Ward|accessdate=29 April 2018 }}</ref>
The village was part of the Ryedale district from 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council.
==See also== *Listed buildings in Sinnington
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Sinnington}}
{{authority control}} Category:Sinnington Category:Villages in North Yorkshire Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire