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Community Shed Grand Opening October 3rd 2026
[Photos by Tim Hardy Photography
Hampsthwaite Community Shed
Hampsthwaite Community Shed provides a friendly, welcoming and safe environment in which members of the local community can meet, share skills, learn from one another and take part in practical, creative and social activities.The Shed aims to: reduce social isolation and encourage friendship and companionship; promote well-being through purposeful practical activity; provide opportunities to learn, practice and share skills; encourage repair, reuse and responsible use of materials; enable members to undertake individual and community projects; provide opportunities to use both traditional craft skills and modern technologies; encourage people of different backgrounds, ages and abilities to participate.
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

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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:

Recollections of Hampsthwaite

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)

Feast and Show 2014

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

Theme : 'A World of Sport"

Greenview - photo

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Old Memorial Hall - aerial view from 1950's/60's - photo

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Funeral Bier - photo

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Lamb Cottage with added porch - photo

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Hollins Close

View of Hollins Close (to follow)

Staying Safe Online

The first priority is to ensure your computer is kept up to date and is well protected with regularly updated anti-virus software. Also don’t store your banking passwords on your computer and change passwords regularly - just in case

Beyond that, staying safe online is largely a matter of being careful what you click on and what you plug into your computer or connect it to. Malware (a general term for all kinds of ‘malicious software’) can only enter a computer via:

an email attachment,
by being downloaded from a website
via connection with an infected device or system - e.g. a USB stick or a compromised network such as in a public cyber cafe.

Using Email

There are two types of email - web-based (like GMail) which can be accessed on any computer with internet and client-based (like Outlook or Thunderbird) which rely on software stored on your computer.

The advantage of client-based is that emails can be managed off-line but it is possible to arrange for web-based emails to do that also.