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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
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
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.
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).
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.
Hampsthwaite Open Gardens
Hampsthwaite Open Gardens - Sat 29th June 12.30am - 5.00pm - Entry £5.00 (accompanied under 15's FREE) Tickets on the day from Hampsthwaite Memorial Hall Plant sales - many named varieties of plants Delicious homemade refreshments Afternoon tea and cakes served from 12.30pm at the Memorial Hall
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!
Genealogy Websites
Free genealogy websites will help you start your family history research at no cost as listed by the 'Who Do You Think You Are' magazine.
Kitchen Refurbishment
Memorial Hall kitchen is now completely, and expertly, refurbished by Neil,Batty Builders Ltd as a result of a grant awarded by the National Lottery's 'Reaching Communities' fund.See also the equivalent

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Ashby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Asby, Corby, Kirby, Ashley, Ash, Busby, Askey, Aaby, Nasby, Asher
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Atkinson

Atkinson Name Meaning
English (northern): patronymic from the personal name Atkin or Adkin pet forms of Adam.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Watkinson, Adkinson, Atkins, Hankinson, Hawkinson, Allinson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Aykroyd

Ackroyd Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): topographic name from northern Middle English ake ‘oak’ + royd ‘clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames:
Oldroyd, Holroyd, Ackley, Ackland, Cross, Mackrell, Packwood, Curd
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bainbridge

Bainbridge Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bainbridge in North Yorkshire named for the Bain river on which it stands (which is named with Old Norse beinn ‘straight’) + Old English brycg ‘bridge’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ashbridge, Corbridge, Sandridge, Trowbridge, Langridge, Bridge
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Calvert

Calvert Name Meaning
English (northern): occupational name from Middle English calfhirde from Old English (Anglian) calf ‘calf’ + hierde ‘herdsman’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Calver, Carver, Culver, Calder, Calbert, Halbert, Covert, Cavett
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Betts

Betts Name Meaning
English: variant of Bett with excrescent -s a patronymic or metronymic from the medieval personal name Bett a short form of Bartholomew Beatrice or Elizabeth. Americanized form of German Betz .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Beets, Letts, Bess, Botts, Betty, Betti, Batt, Kitts, Metts, Belt
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bussey

Bussey Name Meaning
English (Norfolk of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy France: Boucé in Orne from which came Robert de Buci mentioned in Domesday Book Bouce (Manche) or Bucy-le-Long (Aisne). All are named with a Latin personal name Buccius (presumably a derivative of bucca ‘mouth’) + the locative suffix -acum. English: variant of Boosey . Americanized form of German Busse .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bessey, Bursey, Bulley, Vessey, Hussey, Bushey, Busse, Tussey, Busser
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bickerdike

Bickerdike Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): perhaps a topographic name from Middle English bi ker dik ‘by the marsh ditch’ or biker dik ‘bee-keeper's ditch’ or ‘dispute ditch’ in the latter case a compound of biker ‘quarrel dispute’ + dik ‘ditch’ denoting someone who lived by a disputed boundary ditch.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Beckerdite, Bicker, Pickerill, Pickering, Bickerton, Bickert, Berdine
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bottomley

Bottomley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Yorkshire named Bottomley from Old English botm ‘valley bottom’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ottley, Betterley, Bromley, Batley, Thomley, Boxley, Bodley, Bartley
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bowes

Bowes Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Bowes (formerly in North Yorkshire now in County Durham) or from some other place so called the placename being derived from the plural of Old English boga ‘bow’ here referring to bends in a river. Alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(at the) arches or bridge’. See Bow English: variant of Bow with excrescent -s. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bow, Bower, Bowen, Mewes, Boden, Bowns, Bogen, Howes, Lowes, Towers
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts