Laverton, North Yorkshire

Laverton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Ripon.

[1] The River Laver, from which the settlement derives its name, flows through the village.

[2] The parish includes the area of Dallowgill west of the village of Laverton.

Historically Laverton was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malzeard in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[3] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred from the West Riding to North Yorkshire in 1974.