Baldersby

Baldersby

infobox UK place
country = England
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static_image_caption = Baldersby village
latitude = 54.20137
longitude = -1.45591
official_name = Baldersby
population =
shire_district= Harrogate
shire_county = North Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster =
post_town =
postcode_district =
postcode_area =
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SE355785

Baldersby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about six miles west of Thirsk and five miles north east of Ripon on the A61. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 253.

Baldersby has a Post Office, a farm shop, an Anglican Mission Room, and a cricket ground with a pavilion and children's play area. The nearest primary school is Baldersby St. James C of E Primary School in nearby Baldersby St James.

The name Baldersby is derived from that of the Norse god, Balder, and indicates that the area of the village may once have been a Viking settlement.

The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.


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