Population 302 Country England Post town PICKERING Shire county North Yorkshire UK parliament constituency Thirsk and Malton | OS grid reference SE878825 Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Sunday 10:39 AM District Ryedale | |
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Region Yorkshire and the Humber Weather 9°C, Wind SW at 31 km/h, 76% Humidity | ||
Allerston is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about five miles east of Pickering. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 309, reducing slightly to 302 at the 2011 Census.
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Map of Allerston, Pickering, UK
The parish church, originally dedicated to St Mary, is now dedicated to St John and is a grade II* listed building.
During the 1930s, unemployed men were set to work in Dalby Forest, breaking ground, building tracks, and undertaking other heavy labour. The men lived in a work camp in Low Dalby, which was one of a number of so-called Instructional Centres run by the Ministry of Labour in order to 'harden' young men who had been out of work for some time. By 1938, the Ministry was operating 35 Instructional Centres across Britain, with a total capacity of over 6,000 places. By 1939, though, unemployment was declining in the face of impending war, and the Ministry closed down its work camps.
The Cayley Arms, the village pub and Bed and Breakfast, is named after George Cayley the British Aviation Pioneer, who held lands in the surrounding area.
At the bottom of the village is Ebberston railway station of the now-closed Forge Valley Line. The station is now known as The Old Station and is run as a self-catering holiday accommodation business.
Captain Oates of Antarctic fame once owned a farm in the village.
Several sightings of a monkey like creature swinging from tree to tree and scaring horses have been reported in the woods to the North of the village, although no photographic or any physical evidence has ever been made public.