Muscoates
| Muscoates | |
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 Lane into Muscoates | |
.svg)  Muscoates Location within North Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE687802 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | YORK |
| Postcode district | YO62 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Muscoates is a hamlet in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Riccal, 4 miles (6 km) to the south of the town of Kirkbymoorside.
Heritage
Muscoates is first mentioned in a 12th-century document. The name derives either from the Old English mūsa cotes, meaning "mouse-ridden cottages", or from an Old Norse personal name Músi.[1] Muscoates was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkdale,[2] and became a separate civil parish in 1866.[3]
Muscoates was a small parish with an area of only 1,045 acres (423 ha) and a population of 23 in 1961.[4] In 1974 it became part of the new district of Ryedale and was absorbed into the larger neighbouring parish of Nunnington.
Famous son
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 (1935) was described in 1993 by the critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft in 1993 as "singular, odd, completely original".[5]
References
- ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Muscoates", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978 0 521 16855 7
- ^ Page, William, ed. (1914). "Parishes: Kirkdale". Victoria County History. A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ Vision of Britain:relationships and changes.
- ^ Vision of Britain: 1961 census report
- ^ Wheatcroft, Geoffrey (11 December 1993). "Off the Shelf: Trailing baroque clouds of glory: Geoffrey Wheatcroft ponders Herbert Read's entrancing novel, The Green Child". The Independent. Retrieved 19 October 2009.