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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.
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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
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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."
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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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| The Yorkshire Roman Roads Project
In the Historic county of Yorkshire, there are an estimated 1060 miles of Roman road, possibly more, of which about 480 are known with reasonable certainty (45%), making the picture in Yorkshire fairly typical. Given that Yorkshire has a wide variety of topography that is fairly representative of all the kinds of terrain through which Roman roads were built in Britain and therefore representative of the variations in planning and construction, it makes an ideal starting point for a study of Britain’s Roman roads.
Roman Road ExcavationTown Hall, Ripley, Tuesday 7th April and Thursday 9th April, both at 8pm. Mike Haken, Chairman of the Roman Roads Research Association, will talk about the excavations that took place last year in Hollybank Wood, Ripley, on part of the Roman road from Ilkley to Aldborough. The work proved, finally, that the Roman road continued across the valley on precisely the same line as that of Hampsthwaite High Street and probably crossed the R. Nidd some 300m downstream from the current bridge, somewhere near Bridge End Farm. The work also established that the local belief that Hollybank Lane had been on the course of the Roman road is almost certainly incorrect. Mike will talk specifically about the features identified during the excavation, including an intriguing Roman cutting, a layby and even a genuine Roman pothole! He will also discuss the impact of this small excavation on our understanding of the Roman period in the area, and summarise the extent of our knowledge about the rest of the road from Hollybank Wood to Aldborough and highlight areas for further research. The talks are being held upstairs to utilise the excellent AV facilities; places are limited and reservation is recommended, either on our website (www.romanroads.org) or by email to bookings@romanroads.org. Admission is £3 on the door. (Click on images to enlarge)  Trench 1 - it isn't obvious but the far end of the trench is actually the layby
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 Trench 3 - looking SE during excavation
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 Trench 3 - the pothole - the repair has survived and the surface around it has long gone!
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Hollybank Wood Roman Road Excavation
On Sunday 30th March 2014 tours of a Roman road excavation in Hollybank Wood were given by local archaeologists. The site in Hollybank Wood (owned by Sir Thomas Ingilby) is about a mile by foot from Ripley, North Yorkshire. The road once ran between Alborough and Ilkley.
Click HERE, on the image or the heading to view YouTube videos taken at the time
Gazetteer by the Roman Roads Research AssociationCovering all of Britain’s Roman roads, the Gazetteer, when completed, will be the first survey of Britain’s Roman roads since Ivan Margary’s final edition of Roman Roads in Britain in 1973. We aim to provide an up to date evaluation of each Roman road and, since new discoveries are being made all the time this online resource gives us the flexibility to make amendments and additions.The Yorkshire Roman Roads Project In the Historic county of Yorkshire, there are an estimated 1060 miles of Roman road, possibly more, of which about 480 are known with reasonable certainty (45%), making the picture in Yorkshire fairly typical. Given that Yorkshire has a wide variety of topography that is fairly representative of all the kinds of terrain through which Roman roads were built in Britain and therefore representative of the variations in planning and construction, it makes an ideal starting point for a study of Britain’s Roman roads.
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