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Nun Monkton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Nun Monkton

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Nun Monkton history

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The name “Monkton” appears to reflect a pre-Viking or Anglian settlement in the 8th and 9th centuries. The village is mentioned in the late 11th-century Domesday Book where it is referred to – like most villages in northern Yorkshire – as vastatus.

Medieval Benedictine nunnery

A hermitage or small monastic settlement may have existed at Nun Monkton during the Anglian period in Northumbria. The arrival of the nuns came about a century after the Norman Conquest. In 1172 an Anglo-Norman landowner, Ivetta of the Arches, endowed a small Benedictine nunnery which owned the village.

Post-Reformation village and estate

Nun Monkton was a single estate until the 1930s. Its first owner was John Neville, the 3rd Baron Latimer and the second husband of Katherine Parr the last wife of Henry VIII. The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the largest battles ever fought on English soil, took place in fields some miles to the south-west of the village.

Church

St Mary’s Nun Monkton is the Church of England parish church. It is the sole surviving structure from the former priory and of considerable interest for students of Anglo-Norman architecture. At the Reformation the east end of the church was demolished and, until the 1870s, it was a truncated low-roofed building with standard 18th-century Anglican fittings.

Village custom

Until the first half of the 19th century, Nun Monkton villagers annually performed a ceremony of digging up, parading, and reburying a statue supposed to represent St Peter. The custom is said to have been stopped by a vicar who regarded it as a pagan survival. The fullest modern account of it seems to be given in the adjudication ruling that the village common was a green in 1974.

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8 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Nun Monkton places to visit

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Nun Monkton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Nun Monkton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Nun Monkton’s information audio spots:

Vale of York The Vale of York is a major agricultural area and serves as the main north–south transport corridor for Northern England. It is bounded by the Howardian Hills and Yorkshire Wolds to the east and the Pennines to the west.

Nun Monkton Nun Monkton is situated 8 miles (13 km) northwest of York at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Nidd. Cottages and houses are grouped around a village green of 20 acres (81,000 m) with a duck pond and a maypole.

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