of the female residents. The adjacent diagram shows the percentages of different housing types in Bellerby. St John's Church The church of St John the Evangelist was blessed on 24 March 1874. It has three buildings, the first of the three buildings was built before 1801. The present church was designed to be more colourful than her predecessor, with stained glass windows showing the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Bellerby was first documented in the Domesday Book in 1086, and originally in the Parish of Spennithorne. It is recorded that the parishioners of Bellerby and Skeltoncote sent a petition to the Pope in Rome in 1474 (Pope Sixtus IV), asking him to sponsor the use of a chapel in Bellerby for Mass and the appointment by the Rector of Spennithorne of a priest to serve the Chapel, and provided him with a home in Bellerby. In 1847 Belleby chapel was licensed for Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, and this is also when the registers began. After a lot of fund raising on the parish's behalf, the church was restored with a new roof and decoration inside. In January 2006, a carpet was fitted with in St John's Church. Weather Bellerby has experienced severe floods across its history, with the most recent floods occurred during October 2012 (said to be the second great flood since the 1930s), and in June 2019. The flood of 2012 occurred due to a months worth of rain falling over a 24-hour period. Consequently, some of the homes in Bellerby were flooded by up to of water. Bellerby's monthly average temperatures for 2012 averaged with those of the UK as a whole as shown in the adjacent diagram. In 2019, Bellerby was subjected to further flooding when the area suffered a 1-in-a-100 year flooding event. References Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire