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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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).
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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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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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| Postcards of Hampsthwaite
From the Graham Smith Collection (click on photos to enlarge)
 Village centre from Church Lane (1)
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 Village Green (2)
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 Village Pump (3)
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 Village Green (4)
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 Station Road (5)
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 Village Green (6)
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 View down the High Street (7)
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 The Square (8)
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 View up the High Street (9)
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 The Lychgate (10)
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 View of church from across the river (11)
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 Church from the south west (12)
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 Cows across the river from the church (13)
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 Church interior (14)
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 Hampsthwaite Church (15)
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 Hampsthwaite Bridge (16)
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 Village Green (17)
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 Hollins Lane (18)
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 The (old) Vicarage (19)
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 The Methodist Church (20)
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 Church viewed from across the river (21)
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 Church Lane looking south (22)
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 The Green from Church Lane (23)
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 The Green towards Manor Farm (24)
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 Church Lane looking north (25)
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 Hampsthwaite Bridge (26)
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 Hampsthwaite Bridge (27)
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 Hampsthwaite Bridge looking south west (28)
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 Hampsthwaite Bridge (29)
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 Church of St Thomas a'Becket from the east (30)
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 Church of St Thomas a'Becket from Hampsthwaite Bridge (31)
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 Church of St Thomas a'Becket from the east (32)
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 High Street looking south (33)
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 Church Lane looking north (34)
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 Church of St Thomas a'Becket from the east (35)
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 Hampsthwaite CE Primary School (36)
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 Temperance Hotel, Church Lane (38)
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 The Village Green and Manor Farm (39)
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 Hampsthwaite Church (40)
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Postcards of Hampsthwaite From the Graham Smith Collection (click on photos to enlarge)
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