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  • Kids Can Do It

    Kids Can Do It a crafting in cardboard and stripwood practical actvity day. 'standard' materials provided or bring your own. pre-printed designs and patterns available to prepare at home first. adults and teens welcome if accompanied by Under Year 7's they're helping cafe open for teas, coffee and biscuits
  • Child's Chair by Peter Barker

    From a website comment by Mr Derek Barker:""My father Jim Walker formerly a gas meter reader was born in a cottage adjacent to the church gates. Unfortunately I do not know which one of the pair he was born in. As a child he used the chair shown in the photographs. My father who passed away in 2004 told me that it was made from oak taken from Hampsthwaite Church. I make no claims as to its provenance but there is just a chance that it was made by Peter. The Teddy which gives scale to the chair is over 100 years old and belonged to my father in law Arthur Myers of Stubhouse Farm (Emmerdale site) in Harewood Park."
  • 22 Platoon from Army Foundation College

    THIS COMING WEEKEND 21st and 22nd JUNE!I am delighted to announce that 38 young soldiers from22 Platoon at the Army Foundation College will be hosted here todo 'good works' around the village towards their Duke of Edinburgh Award.Please welcome them, thank them, and if you wish, join them!They will be working 1030hrs - 1530hrs around Feast Field on Saturday,followed by Memorial Hall then Village Centreand ending at the churchyard on Sunday.Our Community PayBack Team have kindly loaned several gardening tools,we have sourced others, but if you are able to loan any, especially clippers,trimmers, shears, forks or half moons etc. that would be very helpful.Please label them bring along to leave in the Memorial Hall Foyer 
  • Hampsthwaite Housing

    Local planning authorities need to regularly identify and update their supply of sites for housing development as part of their adopted local plan. North Yorkshire Council is currently drawing up a new county wide local plan and a new consultation (Issues and Options) is about to begin.
  • VE-Day80 8 - 10 May 2025

    Our Memorial Hall was built to honour the fallen in two world wars and give thanks to those who returned. It is appropriate therefore that we play our full part in the national celebrations and village activities are planned for May 8th VE-Day and Saturday May 10th 2025
  • Blind Peter Barker

    Remembering Hampsthwaite’s Blind Joiner - an article by Shaun WilsonLike the market town of Knaresborough, who had ‘Blind Jack’ – John Metcalf, the road builder of Yorkshire in the eighteenth century, the small rural village of Hampsthwaite had it’s blind hero also, almost a century later – Peter Barker who became known as ‘The Blind Joiner of Hampsthwaite.’ Though there are some similarities between John Metcalf and Peter Barker’s lives, these are purely co-incidental and each fulfilled a life, character and career in their own right.
  • The Execution of Hannah Whitley

    Arsenic Poisoning in Hampsthwaite - The Execution of Hannah Whitley In 1789, Hannah Whitley of Hampsthwaite used a pie as the delivery medium for a fatal dose of arsenic, with the poison concentrated in the crust. She claimed She had been coerced into the act of poisoning by her employer, a local linen weaver named Horseman, who was involved in an on-going feud with the intended victim.
  • Jane Ridsdale

    JANE RIDSDALEAged 33 years, born at Hampsthwaite, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, her height is 31 ½ inches.She is remarkably chearfull & enjoys very good health.Published July 1st 1807 by Jane Ridstale, at Harrogate where purchasers of this Print will have the opportunity of seeing and conversing with her
  • Joshua Tetley

    Joshua Tetley was the founder of Tetley’s Brewery in Leeds, and he retired with his wife Hannah to Hollins Hall on the outskirts of Hampsthwaite (Hollins Hall Retirement Village).
  • Scrubbers and Stones

    SCRUBBERS & STONES - Sat 29th June 10.30am - 2.30pm - Entry FREE! Explore the Memorials at St Thomas a'Becket Memorials Treasure Trail - for children if all ages Self-Service / Self-Checkout BBQ from 12 noon (inc. veg option) Food £2, Drink £1, Donations? - yes please! Hot & Cold Drinks Laptop & Screen to show Mapping Hampsthwaite’s Past Use a Bucket & Brush to help reveal Inscriptions on the older memorials . . . or just Sit & Enjoy CORPUS CHRISTI BRASS BAND . . . from 11.30am . . . followed by Afternoon Tea & Cakes at the Memorial Hall!
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Learn My Way with Hampsthwaite Online : BLOCK 1 : Getting Started

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Course descriptions, links and downloads for Sessions in Block 1

Session 0

This is not a requirement and all can be covered during the tutored sessions but you may wish to engage in some pre-session practice before joining us.

  • Activities:
  1. Create safe passwords (which you can remember!). Consider one for general use and another for secure personal use. Check strength of passwords at https://howsecureismypassword.net/ (but experiment with similar passwords rather than your actual passwords - just in case!). Try substituting letters for similar looking numbers or symbols.
  2. Sign up to the Learn My Way web site - see http://www.learnmyway.com/
  3. Complete the Planner – see http://www.learnmyway.com/get-started/planner
  • Tips:
  1. Make sure your computer has is configured to update automatically and is protected with at least Security Essentials – see  http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/mse.aspx
  • Further Practice:
  1. Computer Basics – at http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/courses/computer-basics/lessons/computer-basics
  2. Icons and Windows – at http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/courses/computer-basics/lessons/icons-and-windows
  3. Printing – at http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/courses/computer-basics/lessons/printing
  4. Free Basic Computer Training -  see http://www.meganga.com/
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Harrogate District Sites and Polices Development Plan

PUBLIC CONSULTATION: 10 MAY - 21 JUNE 2013

This is a formal consultation and the final opportunity to comment on the implications for Hampsthwaite of the Sites and Policies DPD (development control policies, site allocations and proposals map) before the draft plan is submitted to the Secretary of State for Independent Examination.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT PREVIOUS RESPONSES DO NOT COUNT AND, IF YOU WISH YOUR VIEWS TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST RESPOND AGAIN USING THE  'CONSULTATION REPRESENTATION FORM' LISTED BELOW.


COMPLETED RESPONSES WHICH ARE TAKEN TO OUR POST OFFICE BEFORE 11.00am ON FRIDAY 21st JUNE WILL BE DELIVERED BY HAND ON YOUR BEHALF


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"Click on map to go to HBC web site"
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Greenview

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Show Photos from Previous Years

See also the Feast and Show archive on the original Hampsthwaite Village web site for years prior to this.


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Photographs and Postcards of Hampsthwaite

From the Shaun Wilson Hampsthwaite collection)
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The Draper's Shop (No. 2 High Street)

589[Alt:A & E Bramley’s Drapers Shop circa 1979/1980 (Photograph’s from Shaun Wilson’s Hampsthwaite collection - click on photos to see collection and quit new window to return to here))]
Article by Shaun L Wilson – July 2013 - Updated April 2017
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Hampsthwaite School Photo Gallery

Hampsthwaite National School : opened 1861 - click for full size image
Hampsthwaite National School : opened 1861

A collection of photos relating to Hampsthwaite CE Primary School from its establisment in 1861.

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World War 1 Diary - 1915

An account of the 5th Yorks. (1st line) visit to the Continent. April 17th.1915

This diary was originally written in a pocket note-book which also contained notes from military lectures and sundry jottings of the sort that any infantry corporal might be expected to make. On the first page are the following details:

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Recollections of Hampsthwaite

William Busfield (1859-1940) with his great Grandson Maurice Edward Wray (B-1934). - click for full size image
William Busfield (1859-1940) with his great Grandson Maurice Edward Wray (B-1934).

My name is Maurice Wray and I was born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds in 1934.

My mother however, Dorothy Vivien Wray (Ne Breaks) was born in Hampsthwaite in 1908 and was largely brought up there by her grandparents, William and Sarah Anne Busfield, who lived on Church Lane where Lamb Cottage is now.

The photo is taken around 1939 and they are sitting on the 'Bink' or stone seat which was then outside the front of his house (now Lamb Cottage, on Church Street, Hampsthwaite).

All materials provided by Ian Wray - October 2013  (Click on photos to enlarge)

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Feast and Show 2014

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Hampsthwaite Feast and Show 2014 was held on 19th and 20th July

Theme : 'A World of Sport"


 

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