Stillingfleet

Stillingfleet
Stillingfleet  Stillingfleet shown within North Yorkshire
Population	405 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SE593410
District	Selby
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	YORK
Postcode district	YO19
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°51′43″N 1°05′57″W / 53.861880°N 1.099210°W

Stillingfleet is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 6 miles (10 km) south of York and nearby settlements include Acaster Selby, Naburn and Appleton Roebuck.

Stillingfleet was once the site of UK Coal's Stillingfleet Mine, part of the Selby Coalfield, which closed in 2004.

The parish church of St Helen's is a grade I listed building.^[2]

Toponymy

The origin of the name 'Stillingfleet' lies in Old English. The name means 'stretch of river belonging to the family or followers of a man called Styfel', and is composed of the elements Styfel (the name of the landowner), inga (followers of) and fleot (stream, inlet or creek). The village was recorded as Steflingefled in the Domesday Book.

1833 Tragedy

On Boxing Day 1833 11 members of a party of carol singers from Stillingfleet were drowned when their boat overturned in the nearby River Ouse.^[3]

References

1. "Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
2. Historic England. "Church of St Helen (1296904)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
3. "The Knitting Genealogist". Retrieved 23 November 2012.

External links

• Historic England. "St Helen's Church (326225)". Images of England.
• The ancient parish of Stillingfleet: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI.

The Cross Keys pub in Stillingfleet