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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!

Ridsdale

Ridsdale Name Meaning
Probably from Redesdale rather than from Ridsdale (both Northumb). Redesdale is recorded as Redesdale in 1075 and Riddesdale in 1203 and derives from the river-name Rede (genitive Redes itself from Old English rēad ‘red’) + Old Scandinavian dalr ‘valley’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Dinsdale, Ragsdale, Dimsdale, Riddle, Hinsdale, Tisdale, Riddell
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Plot No. 3035

George Ridsdale 1755 - 1829

Ann Ridsdale 1761 - 1829

Plot No. 3036

Jane Ridsdale 1769 - 1828

Plot No. 3037

William Ridsdale 1761 - 1815

Rose Ridsdale 1764 - 1831

George Ridsdale Plot 3035

Jane Ridsdale Plot 3036

William Ridsdale Plot 3037

Inscription

In Memory of

GEORGE RIDSDALE OF MEG-GATE
IN THIS PARISH WHO DIED JUNE 12th
1829 AGED 74 YEARS

ALSO ANN HIS WIFE WHO DIED JUNE
14th 1829 AGED 68 YEARS

THE CONFLICT THO SEVERE WAS SHORT
THEIR SOUL IS NOW AT REST
WHERE HAPPY SPIRITS EVER DWELL
IN MANSIONS OF THE BLEST

In Memory of

Jane Ridsdale, Daughter of
George and Isabella Ridsdale
of Hampsthwaite, who died at
Swinton Hall in the Parish of
Masham on the 2nd Day of
January 1828, in the 59th Year
of her age

Being in stature only 31 ½ Inches high
Blest be that hand divine which gently laid
My head at rest beneath this humble abode
Then be the ties of friendship dear
Let no rude hand disturb my body here

To the Memory of

WILLIAM RIDSDALE of SCAROW HILL
who died 27th July 1815 aged 54
Years

Also of ROSE RIDSDALE
Wife of the above named who died
15th August 1831 aged 67 years

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Plot No. 1236

Florence Ridsdale - 1929
Thomas Ridsdale - 1929
Arthur Ridsdale - 1930
Florence Ridsdale - 1959
Frederick Farrah Ridsdale - 1965
Austin Matthew Ridsdale - 1973
Annie Ridsdale - 1984

Florence Ridsdale Plot 1236

Inscription

In Loving Memory Of
Florence Ridsdale
Died 14th June 1929 Aged 30 Years
Also Thomas Ridsdale
Died 18th Dec 1929 Aged 28 Years
And Arthur Ridsdale
Died 19th Sept 1930 Aged 19 Years
Also Florence Ridsdale
Died 12th Feb 1959 Aged 85 Years
Also Frederick Farrah Ridsdale
Died 25th January 1965 Aged 86 Years
Austin Matthew Ridsdale
Died 22nd May 1973 Aged 69 Years
Annie Ridsdale 31st Dec 1984 Aged 80

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Plot No.	Name	Burial Date	Age
	Ann RIDSDALE	13 Feb 1813	43
3035	Ann RIDSDALE	14 Jun 1829	68
1236	Annie Ridsdale RIDSDALE	31 Dec 1984	80
1236	Arthur RIDSDALE	19 Sep 1930	19
1236	Austin Matthew RIDSDALE	22 May 1973	69
1236	Florence RIDSDALE	14 Jun 1929	30
1236	Florence RIDSDALE	12 Feb 1959	85
1236	Frederick Farrah RIDSDALE	25 Jan 1965	86
	George RIDSDALE	27 Nov 1806	7
	George RIDSDALE	26 May 1826	1
3035	George RIDSDALE	12 Jun 1829	74
	George RIDSDALE	28 Nov 1849	82
	Hannah RIDSDALE	12 Jun 1836	66
	Isabella RIDSDALE	1 Jan 1817	92
3036	Jane RIDSDALE	2 Jan 1828	58
	Jane Ann RIDSDALE	19 Feb 1877	0
	Joseph Robert RIDSDALE	4 Aug 1910	< 1
	Robert RIDSDALE	7 May 1829	< 1
3037	Rose RIDSDALE	15 Aug 1831	67
1236	Thomas RIDSDALE	18 Dec 1929	28
3037	William RIDSDALE	27 Jul 1815	54
	William RIDSDALE	8 Sep 1822	< 1

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