Moor Monkton History
Moor Monkton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a small settlement belonging to “Richard, son of Herfast”. Herfast was a Norman who arrived in England in 1066 with William the Conqueror. He became the first Lord Chancellor of England. The name Monkton means “the farm of the monks”. Originally known as “Monkton”, “Moor” was added in various incarnations and spellings of the name in the 1400s. It was done to distinguish it from Nun Monkton, which is another nearby village, the other side of the River Nidd.
War Memorial Re-dedication Service
On Saturday 23 September 2023, the Chair of the Parish Council and other members met with the Deputy Mayor and the Clerk of the Edlington Town Council in a moving experience for the re-dedication of the Memorial to the Canadian crew of Lancaster Bomber W4904 that crashed nearby in September 1943. Attendees included residents of Moor Monkton who remembered the plane crashing and members of the family in whose field the Lancaster crashed.
More details and background
Some images from the day
The images on this section are a sequence from the memorial dedication service in chronological order.