Place:Danby Wiske, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Danby Wiske is a village in the district of Hambleton in North Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement in the civil parish of Danby Wiske with Lazenby formed in 1974. The village lies 3.7 miles (6 km) north northwest of the county town of Northallerton.

Danby Wiske was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Danebi". The lands were the property of Kofse at the time of the Norman conquest in 1066. After 1086 the manor was granted to Landric of Hornby. There were three households, five ploughlands and six acres of meadow. During the late 13th century and early 14th century, the manor was the subject of dispute. Originally it had passed to the lords of Richmond, who had granted hereditary lordship to Geoffrey le Scrope. When his son Henry inherited the manor the Crown took the title for a short time until it was returned to Henry. However the Crown retook possession upon learning the conditions of inheritance and granted it back to the lords of Richmond in 1342. The manor was leased to Robert Dawe and Edward Thurland in 1602, but in 1616 King James I granted the manor of Danby Wiske to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, founder of the state of Maryland in the United States. The Calverts sold the manor in 1701 after which it changed hands a couple of times until in 1718 it was bought by Sir Hugh Smithson (c. 1714 – 6 June 1786) (who was later Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC). In 1765 the estate was sold to Jonathon Wharton. By 1857, the manor was in the possession of the Venerable Archdeacon Cust.

Danby Wiske is around ¼ mile from the East Coast Main Line; there was once a railway station here, but this has long since closed. The ancient parish of Danby Wiske included Yafforth as well as the hamlet of Streetlam, but not Lazenby (until 1974) Yafforth became a separate civil parish in 1866.

The village lies on a minor road between the village of Streetlam and the A167 near Northallerton. There is a crossroads in the centre of the village, with another minor road leading to the nearby village of Yafforth. The village lies at an elevation between 120 feet (37 m) and 141 feet (43 m)[11] The remains of a moated site south of the church is designated an Ancient Scheduled monument. It is approximately 2 hectares (4.9 acres) in size with several distinct raised features including evidence that a channel existed between the site and the River Wiske.

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