Potto, North Yorkshire

Potto

St Mary's Church
Potto
 Potto shown within North Yorkshire
Population 324 (Including Seahow. 2011) [1]
OS grid referenceNZ473036
Civil parishPotto
DistrictHambleton
Shire countyNorth Yorkshire
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NORTHALLERTON[2]
Postcode district DL6
Dialling code 01642
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
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Coordinates: 54°25′34″N 1°16′12″W / 54.426°N 1.270°W / 54.426; -1.270

Potto is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.[3] It is 5 miles south-west of Stokesley and near the main A172 road.

History

In the middle-to-late 1950s the village became known as the village with "the pub that never opened". If a person wanted to enter, the then owner a Mr. Heslop would look through the window to see if you were respectable or not. After his death, the pub and contents were sold off, the "Johnnie Walker" copper serving tray passing into the hands of the late Richard Preston, steam preservationist who passed it on to his grandson who still looks after it.

Geography

Located close to the western border of North York Moors National Park, Potto is a small village that has a pub, a church and a haulage company. The surrounding villages are Swainby in south, Hutton Rudby and Rudby in north, Faceby and Carlton in Cleveland to the east. It is 11.5 miles far from Northallerton, and 14 from Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees.

See also

References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  2. Potto on postcodes-uk.com
  3. Potto on the Hambleton District Council website

External links

Media related to Potto at Wikimedia Commons


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