Goathland
| Goathland | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Goathland | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ831012 |
| Location: | 54°24’-0"N, 0°43’12"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 438 (2011) |
| Post town: | Whitby |
| Postcode: | YO22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Scarborough |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Scarborough and Whitby |
Goathland is a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which is to be found due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line. The village is within the North York Moors National Park.
It is a little place, with a population at thhe 2011 census of 438.
Goathland has a history extending from Viking times. The name Goathland is probably a corruption of the Old Norse or Old English for 'good land'.[1] Alternatively, it may come from 'Goda's land' (or 'Goða's land'), from an Old English personal name.[1]
In 1109 King Henry I granted land to Osmund the Priest and the brethren of the hermitage of Goathland, then called Godelandia, for the soul of his mother Queen Matilda, who had died in 1083. This is recorded in a charter held at Whitby Abbey.[2] The village was a spa town in the 19th century. There are many hotels and guest houses in the village, the largest, the Mallyan Spout Hotel, is named after a nearby waterfall. There is a caravan site, reached by driving along the track which is the site of the older railway route, 1835 to 1860.
Much of the surrounding land is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy's tenants have a common right extending for hundreds of years to graze their black faced sheep on the village green and surrounding moorland.
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway
- Main article: North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Goathland railway station is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The railway is run by a charitable trust with some paid staff but is mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including Christmas. It carries more than 250,000 passengers a year and is the second-longest preserved line in Britain. It links Grosmont in the north with Pickering in the south, along the route of the Whitby - Pickering line built by George Stephenson in 1835 and upgraded in 1865. From 2007 some trains on the railway were timetabled to run to Whitby and in March 2014 work began in Whitby station to replace a platform and allow more North Yorkshire Moors Railway services to be timetabled Whitby - Pickering.
Goathland railway station was used as the location for Hogsmeade railway station in the Harry Potter films, and the line filmed for Harry's journey.
Country just south of Goathland
Moorland at Goathland
Goathland's main road
Goathland Church
Goathland Railway Station
The shops on the green at Goathland
Shops
Tea room
Appearance in literature and popular fiction
Goathland was the setting of the fictional village of Aidensfield in the television series Heartbeat, set in the 1960s. Many landmarks from the series are recognisable, including the stores, garage/funeral directors, the public house and the railway station. The pub is called the Goathland Hotel, but in the series is the Aidensfield Arms. After filming for some years a replica was built in the studio.[3]
Goathland features in its own right as an important setting in Dan Chapman's 2014 dystopian, futuristic novel Closed Circuit.[4] Goathland also features in "Ice", a novel by Australian writer Louis Nowra (Allen & Unwin, 2008).
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Goathland) |
- Glendale House, Goathland - photo galleries
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia; Mills, A. D.; Room, Adrian (2002). The Oxford Names Companion. Oxford: the University Press. p. 1132. ISBN 0198605617.
- ↑ No. 396, Early Yorkshire Charters, William Farrer ed., 1914
- ↑ "Heartbeat". http://www.thegoathlandhotel.co.uk/index.php/heartbeat/. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ↑ Chapman, D. (2014), Closed Circuit, Concept Press: UK, ISBN 978-1499191615
