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  • 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!
  • 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
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    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.
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Farling

Farling Name Meaning
Perhaps an altered form of Scottish and northern Irish Farland .
Farland Name Meaning
Altered form of French Ferland . Scottish and northern Irish: shortened form of McFarland .
Mcfarland Name Meaning
Irish (northern): variant of McFarlane .
Mcfarlane Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin a patronymic from the personal name Parthalán which is most probably from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). Parthalán regularly shortened in speech to Parlán has also been Anglicized as Bartlett . Compare McPartland .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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FarlandMarlingHarlingDarlingArlingFallinFalinWarling
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Feasby

Feasby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Faceby in Whorlton (North Yorkshire). The placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Feitr (genitive Feits) + bý ‘farmstead settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
ClasbyFrisbyNasbyYearbyCleasbyAsbyFeaselNesbyKeasey
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Finn

Finn Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Finn ‘descendant of Fionn’ a byname meaning ‘white’ or ‘fair-haired’; it is often found Anglicized as White . This name is borne by several families in the west of Ireland. English and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name Fin(n) (Old Norse Finnr Fin originally ‘Finn’) used both as a byname and as a short form of various compound names with this first element. English (Kent of Norman origin): variant of Finnis a habitational name from Fiennes Pas-de-Calais France. See Fines German: ethnic name for someone from Finland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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KinnLinnGinnRinnFinneFinanFinaFinkFinoPinn
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Firth

Firth Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English firthe frithe frethe ‘frith wood woodland’ also ‘hunting ground’ (whether or not wooded). These are forms of Old English firhthe (ge)fyrhthe ferhthe in which the awkward consonant cluster -rhth- was simplified by dropping medial -h- and sometimes metathesizing the -r-. In medieval Sowerbyshire Yorkshire and Derbyshire the friths were areas reserved for hunting so the surname there may have belonged to forest officials. Scottish: habitational name from Firth in Orkney.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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FurthForthWorthWirthFitzGarthNorthWarthFitchMirto
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Hall

Hall Name Meaning
English Scottish Irish German Norwegian and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall) Middle High German halle Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century and according to MacLysaght has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century. Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr). Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀 see He 1 and
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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HaleBallWallFallHillHalleHaldHellHaltGall
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Grange / Granger

Grange Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire) and French: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked in a granary especially the farm manager from Middle English Old French grange (from Latin granica ‘granary barn’ from granum ‘grain’); or a French habitational name from any of the places called with this word for example in Ardèche and Jura. Redmonds points out that the English name was interchangeable with Granger . Compare French Degrange and Lagrange .
Granger Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger Old French grangier from Late Latin granicarius a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ). French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above) an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer a sharecropper.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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GrangerGangeRangeGrandeOrangeRangerPrangeGrandGrace
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Hardisty

Hardisty Name Meaning
English: variant of Hardesty .
Hardesty Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Hardisty Hill in Fewston (Yorkshire) from the Old English personal name Heardwulf (composed of the elements heard ‘hardy brave strong’ + wulf ‘wolf’) + Old English stīg ‘path narrow road’. Compare Hardester and Hardisty
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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HardenHarveyHarleyHardemanHarnessHastyHarderHarty
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Harris

Harris Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However in some cases particularly in families coming from County Mayo Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans. American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)- such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki) and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname). Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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HarryFarrisSarrisGabrisParrishHargisHartsMartisFerris
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Haw / Hawe

Haw Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Haw(e) which like Daw(e) was probably a rhyming pet form of Middle English Raw (Ralph). Similar rhyming pet forms of other Anglo-Norman male personal names beginning with R- are found in Hick and Dick for Rick (Richard) and Hob and Dob for Rob(ert). See also Hawkin . English: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure from Middle English hawe ‘enclosure’ (Old English haga or Old Norse hagi). Compare Haugh . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀 see He 1 and
Hawe Name Meaning
English: variant of Haw . Irish (Kilkenny): variant of Haugh .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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HayHawkShawMawHewHanRawLawHallChew
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Hayton

Hayton Name Meaning
English (Cumberland): habitational name from any of various places called Hayton such as those in Cumberland East Yorkshire Nottinghamshire and Shropshire named with Old English hēg ‘hay’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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HartonLaytonCaytonHattonGaytonHaltonPaytonHilton
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