Carperby

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country = England
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latitude = 54.30227
longitude = -1.99304
official_name = Carperby
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shire_district= Richmondshire
shire_county = North Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
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os_grid_reference = SE005896

Carperby is a village in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, in the Yorkshire Dales. It lies about eight miles west of Leyburn.

Brief history

In the centre, a high-stepped cross dated 1674 tells of the time when Carperby had a market (granted in 1305). In the 17th century the village was an important Wensleydale centre of Quakerism, and its biggest building even today is the classically-styled Friends' Meeting house of 1864. The name of the Wheatsheaf Hotel suggests a corn-growing past, and the inn itself was where James Herriot and his bride spent their honeymoon in the 1930s.