Seamer, Hambleton

Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

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54°29′07″N 1°13′53″W / 54.485150°N 1.231520°W / 54.485150; -1.231520

Seamer is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, near the border with the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees and 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Stokesley.[2] According to the 2011 census, the population of the village was 566,[1] which North Yorkshire County Council estimated had dropped to 560 by 2015.[3]

Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Semer(s),[4] with later medieval attestations including Samara.[5] The first element is Old English sǣ 'lake'; the spelling of the second element suggests variation between Old English mere 'sea', Old English mersc 'marsh', and Old Norse marr 'lake, sea, pool'. The dominant meaning of the name therefore seems to have been 'lake by the sea'.[6]

This rural village supports a small farming community. There are two churches in the village, a Methodist chapel[7] and St Martin's Church of England.[8] St Martin's is an 1822 rebuild of a medieval church, which was located in the same place. It still retains some 14th-century stained glass and is now grade II listed.[9] The village also has the King's Head pub,[10] and a duck pond on the village green.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Seamer Parish (1170216916)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Genuki: Seamer In Cleveland, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Seamer | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 410. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  6. ^ Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. SEAMER.
  7. ^ "Genuki: The Methodist Church, Seamer in Cleveland, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ^ "St Martin - A Church Near You". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Martin (Grade II) (1150241)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  10. ^ Love, Laura (29 October 2011). "Holiday park in Seamer village to go ahead". Gazette Live. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  11. ^ Chapman, Hannah, ed. (30 August 2019). "Cash boost for village pond feature". Darlington & Stockton Times. No. 35–2019. p. 5. ISSN 2516-5348.
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