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Linton is a village south west of Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England in the parish of Collingham and the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. The village is situated between Wetherby and Sicklinghall, on the River Wharfe. Collingham lies immediately to the south on the other side of the river. There is no longer any appreciable break between Linton and the western edge of Wetherby. ==History== Little is known of the early history of the village, but archaeologists have dated over 8000 local flints to between 10,000 and 2000 BC, and crop marks around the village point to ditched enclosures and field systems in the Iron Age and Roman period (800 BC – AD 410). Roman artifacts have also been found, and in 1936, a Roman burial site was identified to the north of the village. The village is mentioned in Domesday, where it is valued higher than Wetherby. The Anglo-Saxon place name means "flax farm". There was a now-vanished medieval chapel in the village, possibly founded by the Percy family, who once owned the village.〔Linton Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, Leeds City Council, 22 February 2010. (Retrieved 23 September 2012. )〕 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' (1848, ed. Samuel Lewis) calls it "a township, in the parish of Spofforth, Upper division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 1¾ mile (W. by S.) from Wetherby; containing 169 inhabitants. The township comprises by computation 1030 acres. The village is situated on the north side of the vale of the Wharfe. A rent-charge of £257. 10. has been awarded as a commutation for the tithes. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."〔British History site. (23 September 2012. )〕 A correspondent writing in the ''Leeds Mercury'' on 8 September 1874 notes, "On the opposite side of the Wharfe (Collingham ), perched on the hillside, is the picturesque village of Linton, the most conspicuous object being a neat Wesleyan chapel."〔Parlington Hall site: (Retrieved 27 September 2012. )〕 According to ''Kelly's Directory'' of 1893, Linton had four farms, a school (founded about 1859, later a church and now a dwelling house), a manor house (c. 1650 but much altered), and a public house (''The Windmill Inn''). The population of Linton in the 1920s was only 130. The golf course on Linton Ings was opened in 1910. The architect William Alban Jones was responsible for several new houses built in the Arts and Crafts Movement style around the old hub of the village in the 1920s, and also for the small Memorial Hall (1947).〔Parish of Collingham with Linton. Design Statement May 2010. (Retrieved 22 September 2012. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linton, West Yorkshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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