page_title: Leeming, North Yorkshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Leeming, North Yorkshire / History
caption_attribution_description: Church of St John The Baptist, Leeming, North Yorkshire
context_page_description: Leeming is a village in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England.
context_section_description: The name derives from the river-name, which turned settlement-name. The etymology may be linked with British *lemanio "elm-tree", but there are other possibilities. An archaeological survey undertaken on Kelsall Villa (a Roman site near to Leeming Bar) describes it as deriving from the river with Leming meaning bright stream.
  In April 2008, the nearby base's remaining Tornado F3 squadron (25 Sqn) was disbanded. The base has been redeveloped as a communications station with the formation of No. 90 Signals Unit, the first elements of which began arriving in 2006. Two flying squadrons remain at the base, No. 100 Squadron RAF and the Northumbria University Air Squadron.
  The village churchyard is the burial place of Flt Lt John Quinton GC DFC, who sacrificed himself to save an air cadet by providing the cadet with the only available parachute after a mid-air collision.
caption: The Church of Saint John the Baptist, Leeming
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