Grantley,_North_Yorkshire
Grantley, North Yorkshire
Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
Grantley is a village (also known as High Grantley) and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 5 miles (8 km) west of Ripon. The parish also includes the hamlet of Low Grantley. The population of the parish was estimated at 130 in 2013.[1]
The parish lies on the north bank of the River Skell, in a well-wooded valley. Grantley Sawmills is a local employer, just outside the parish on the south bank of the river. Grantley Hall, on the north bank of the river, is an 18th-century Grade II* listed building, built by Thomas Norton and his son Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley.[2]
The toponym, first mentioned in about 1030, is Old English, and means "clearing of a man called Grante".[3]
Grantley was historically a township in the parish of Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[4] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. The parish now shares a grouped parish council with the civil parishes of Sawley, Eavestone and Skelding, known as the Grantley, Sawley, Skelding and Eavestone Parish Council.[5]
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