Place:Coverham with Agglethorpe, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Name	Coverham with Agglethorpe
Alt names	Agglethorpe with Coverham	source: OS map of 1900
	Coverham	source: village in parish, name of ancient or ecclesiastical parish including other parishes
	Agglethorpe	source: hamlet in parish
	Horsehouse	source: hamlet in parish
	Coverham Abbey	source: abbey and burial ground in parish
Type	Township, Civil parish
Coordinates	54.275°N 1.87°W
Located in	North Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974)
Also located in	Yorkshire, England
	North Yorkshire, England (1974 - )
See also	Hang West Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England	early county division in which it was located
	Leyburn Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, England	rural district 1894-1974
	Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England	district municipality in which it has been situated since 1974

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Coverham with Agglethorpe (#11 on map) is now a civil parish in the Richmondshire District of North Yorkshire, England. It includes the village of Coverham and the hamlet of Agglethorpe.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Coverham with Agglethorpe was a civil parish within Leyburn Rural District. Historically, the ecclesiastical parish was named Coverham and was in the Hang West Wapentake.

The parish became the centre of a large parish in the Honour of Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which included besides the township of Coverham with Agglethorpe, the parishes of Caldbergh with East Scrafton (#5 on map), Carlton Highdale (#6), Carlton Town (#7), Melmerby (#22) and West Scrafton (#32). All these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866.

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Coverham

Coverham (redirected here) is a village in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the town of Middleham. In the 2011 Census, the population of Coverham village was included with that of the Parish of Melmerby, which had 213 people in it. (The Office of National Statistics always combines parishes of less than 100 inhabitants with a neighbouring parish.) In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated that the population of the whole parish of Coverham with Agglethorpe was 90.

The ruins of the Grade I listed Coverham Abbey are in the village; the site has no access to the public. The local Church of the Holy Trinity dates from the 13th century and became redundant in 1985. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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Agglethorpe

Agglethorpe (redirected here) is a hamlet in the Richmondshire District of North Yorkshire, England, it lies in northern Coverdale, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Leyburn and in the western part of the parish.

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GENUKI on Coverham with Agglethorpe.
A Vision of Britain through Time on Agglethorpe.
A Vision of Britain through Time on Coverham.
the FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Coverham.

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Categories: North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Coverham with Agglethorpe, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Aysgarth, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Hang West Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Aysgarth Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England