Naburn
Naburn is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.For administrative purposes it formed part of the Selby District in the shire county of North Yorkshire from 1974 until 1996.The York-Selby railway line crossed the River Ouse just north of the village by way of a swing bridge built in 1871.[3] In 1823 Naburn was in the parishes of Acaster Malbis and St George, York, in the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent and the East Riding of Yorkshire.Occupations included fifteen farmers and yeomen, two of whom were also butchers, two shoemakers, a wheelwright, a shopkeeper, a corn miller, a tailor, a lock keeper, and the landlord of The Horse shoe public house who was also a blacksmith.[4] A sewage works for York, covering about 20 acres, was opened beside the river in Naburn in 1895 and has been extended several times.[3] A narrow gauge railway operated at the sewage works and consisted of a short stretch of line and a siding.A small sub post office closed in 2022, with a part time farm shop opening in it's place.[6] The village lies on Sustrans National Cycle Route 65, which provides an off-road link into York.[8] A farm-house called Naburn Hill or White Cock Hall, beside the York road in the north-east of the parish, was used for Wesleyan Methodist worship in 1851 and was registered for the purpose in 1853, but by 1896 had fallen into disuse.