Market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

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Leyburn

<p><b>Leyburn</b> is a <a href="/en/Market_town" title="Market town" class="wl">market town</a> and <a href="/en/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish" class="wl">civil parish</a> in the district of <a href="/en/Richmondshire" title="Richmondshire" class="wl">Richmondshire</a>, <a href="/en/North_Yorkshire" title="North Yorkshire" class="wl">North Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/en/England" title="England" class="wl">England</a>, sitting above the northern bank of the <a href="/en/River_Ure" title="River Ure" class="wl">River Ure</a> in <a href="/en/Wensleydale" title="Wensleydale" class="wl">Wensleydale</a>. <a href="/en/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England" class="wl">Historically</a> in the <a href="/en/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="North Riding of Yorkshire" class="wl">North Riding of Yorkshire</a>, the name was derived from 'Ley' or 'Le' (clearing), and 'burn' (stream), meaning clearing by the stream. Leyburn had a population of 1,844 at the <a href="/en/2011_Census_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="2011 Census of the United Kingdom" class="mw-redirect wl">2001 census</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> increasing to 2,183 at the 2011 Census.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-NOMIS_1-1"><a href="#cite_note-NOMIS-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> The estimated population in 2015 was 2,190.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span></p>

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.pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage"><a href="/en/File:North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_(2023).svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Leyburn is located in North Yorkshire" data-hash="File:North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_(2023).svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Leyburn is located in North Yorkshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_%282023%29.svg/240px-North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_%282023%29.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1037" data-file-type="drawing" height="175" width="240" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_%282023%29.svg/360px-North_Yorkshire_UK_location_map_%282023%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">2,183<span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="/en/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" title="United Kingdom Census 2011" class="mw-redirect wl">2011 census</a>)<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-NOMIS_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-NOMIS-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid" class="wl">OS<span>&nbsp;</span>grid<span>&nbsp;</span>reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Leyburn&amp;params=54.309073933784_N_1.8262931422448_W_region:GB_scale:25000&amp;title=Leyburn" class="external text" target="_blank">SE114904</a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish" class="wl">Civil parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Leyburn</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England" class="wl">District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/en/Richmondshire" title="Richmondshire" class="wl">Richmondshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties 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Leyburn is a market town and civil parish in the district of Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England, sitting above the northern bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the name was derived from 'Ley' or 'Le' , and 'burn' , meaning clearing by the stream. Leyburn had a population of 1,844 at the 2001 census 