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Akebar (#1 on map) is now a civil parish and a village in the Richmondshire District of North Yorkshire, England, about eight miles south of Richmond. The inhabitants of the civil parish occupy several farms. At the 2011 UK census the population was less than 100. Information regarding the combined statistics can be found in the neighbouring parish of Finghall.
It was a village settlement even before the Viking invasion when James the Deacon, a disciple of St. Paulinus, established an early church at Akebar in the 7th century AD. The present church of St. Andrew, on the edge of the park, was built in the 11th century on the position of the first church. It is still an active and well loved church.
The township of Akebar was mentioned in the records of Jervaulx Abbey in 1290. It remained a grange farm for Jervaulx, a daughter monastery of the Cistercian Order at Fountains Abbey, until the dissolution of the monasteries around 1530. The Abbot and Monks of Jervaulx were well known for their excellent cheese, named "Wensleydale", and famous for the breeding of horses of exceptional quality and bravery. It is recorded that a large number of their brood mares were kept at the grange farms at Akebar.
Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Akebar was located in Leyburn Rural Districtin the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Finghall in the Hang West Wapentake.
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