Next Feast and Show 21st and 22nd July 2012

Photos and  Details from Feast 2011

Keep updated by visiting our Feast Facebook page with information on confirmed performers, info on scarecrow competition, meetings etc.

Feast Scarecrow Trail

As our tribute to the forthcoming UK Olympic Games, the Feast Theme for 2012 is "Sporting Figures" so put on your thinking caps and be creative!

Note that the aim is not necessarily a named character but rather the depiction of a sport - i.e. not necessarily Jessica Ennis but rather a Heptathlete

The aim is to flood the village with sporting figures in the weeks prior to the UK Olympic Games. The competition will be judged on the quality of execution rather than the difficulty of identification

Hampsthwaite Show

Entries are open to everyone living in the show catalogue delivery area and those attending Hampsthwaite C of E Primary School. Entry forms are provided with the catalogue. Entries to be made in the Memorial Hall between 7 pm and 8 pm on Friday or on Saturday between 9 am and 10.30 am on the weekend of the Show

See the Hampsthwaite Show section of this web site for full details

Grant of Market and Fairs at Pannal and Hampsthwaite

The King to the Sheriff of York greeting.

Whereas we will that a market every week on Tuesday at our Hamlet of Panehale which is a member of our manor of Knaresburgh and a fair there every year lasting four days to wit for two days before the feast of St. Michael, the feast itself and the morrow of the same. And likewise that a market every week on Friday at our Hamlet of Hamestwayt which is a member of our manor aforesaid and a fair there every year lasting four days, to wit for two days before the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, on the feast itself and the morrow of the same shall be held.

We charge you that such markets and fairs in your full county you cause publicly to be proclaimed and firmly to be held.

Witness the King at Lincoln xxvii. Day of December.

Translation of original grant found amongst the Close Rolls of 33rd Edward 1. (1304)

Hampsthwaite Feast History

Just about 700 years ago, Edward the 1st (ie 'Longshanks' or 'Hammer of the Scots') granted the Market Charter of Hampsthwaite, presumably as he journeyed south, a few years after returning home with the 'Stone of Destiny' and before going back to capture William Wallace and then have a 'bit of a do' with 'Robert the Bruce' (see the film 'Brave Heart' for more details!)

The charter called for a fair in Hampsthwaite every year lasting four days around the Translation of St. Thomas the