North Stainley is derived jointly from Old English and Old Norse and means a stone clearing. The village is mentioned in the
Domesday Book with 15 ploughlands and belonging to the
Archbishop of York. The name of the village derives from the
Old English of
Stān lēah, which means a
stone wood or clearing. North Stainley is on the south bank of the River Ure, and was in the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when it was moved into North Yorkshire. It was formerly in the
wapentake of
Claro, and the Liberty of Ripon. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the
Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary
North Yorkshire Council. The population of the parish in the
2001 census was 604, rising to 737 at the 2011 Census. The village is cut through by the
A6108 road between Ripon and Leyburn. It has a school, North Stainley Church of England Primary School, which is rated as being
Requires Improvement by
Ofsted and a church, St Mary the Virgin. The church was built in 1840 by the Staveley family, who owned the manor and built the Manor House in the 16th century. The pub in the village is called
The Staveley Arms. Since 1983, the parish has been part of the
Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary constituency. ==See also==