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Newbiggin, South Wensleydale
Newbiggin is a village and civil parish in Bishopdale, a side dale on the south side of Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The population was estimated at 80 in 2012. In the 2011 census the parish was included with the parish of Bishopdale. The name Newbiggin derived from the words 'niwe', which is Old English for 'new' and 'bigging', a word from Middle English, said to mean 'building'. This translates to New Building in today's language. History Newbiggin once belonged to Jervaulx Abbey. Newbiggin is home to a number of 18th-century houses, one of the more notable ones is in the north end of the parish. This house in particular has a doorway which is said to have: "a cambered lintel with a quatrefoil in each angle and moulded jambs". Above this door there is an inscription dated 1636. This dates the house back almost 400 years now, and some of its key features such as its original three light mullioned window still remains to this day. Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishopdale, North Yorkshire
Bishopdale is a dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. The dale is a side dale on the south side of Wensleydale, and extends for some south west from Aysgarth. Bishopdale is also the name of a civil parish, which includes only the sparsely populated upper reaches of the dale, from the head of the dale as far downstream as Howesyke and Howgill Gill. Geography There are three villages in the dale, all in its lower part: West Burton, Thoralby and Newbiggin. The Bishopdale Beck flows through the dale to join the River Ure about east of Aysgarth. The B6160 road follows the path of the river from its junction with the A684 to the watershed at Kidstones Pass where it continues to Cray and Buckden in Upper Wharfedale. The highest point in the dale is to be found at about two thirds of the way up Buckden Pike. The dale is divided between four civil parishes, Bishopdale, Newbiggin, Thoralby and the northern part of Burton-cum-Walden (which in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aysgarth
Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about south-west of Richmond and west of the county town of Northallerton. History A Bronze Age burial has been found in the village. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as ''Echescard''. The toponymy is derived from the combination of the Old Norse words ''eiki'', meaning oak, and ''skarð'', which may mean open space, cleft or mountain pass, so the probable meaning is ''Oak tree cleft'', referring to the valley cut by the River Ure. At the time of the Norman invasion, the manor was held by Cnut, son of Karli. Afterwards the manor was in the possession of Count Alan of Brittany, who granted lordship to Geoffrey of Swaffham. By the 13th century, the manor was in the hands of the ''Burgh'' family of Hackforth. The manor descended with the manor of Hackforth until 1480, at which time they were conveye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In North Yorkshire
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garsdale Railway Station
Garsdale is a railway station in Cumbria, England (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire), on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated south-east of Carlisle, serves the village of Garsdale and town of Sedbergh, South Lakeland in Cumbria, and the market town of Hawes, Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders, though not in the same style as used elsewhere on the route. It opened on 1 August 1876 as ''Hawes Junction''. Adjoining the station are sixteen Railway Cottages built for its employees by the Midland Railway around 1876, the year the Settle-Carlisle Line opened. A further six cottages were added near to the Moorcock Inn soon afterwards. In the days of steam-hauled London-Scotland expresses, the locality once boasted the highest water troughs in the world (just along the lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worton, North Yorkshire
Worton is a hamlet in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies east of Bainbridge on the A684 road, west of Aysgarth and south east of Askrigg. The hamlet is just south of the River Ure, the biggest river in Wensleydale. The hamlet is named in the Domesday Book and its name derives from the Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ... ''wyrt-tūn'' and means the (herb or vegetable) garden. There are a number of listed buildings in the hamlet, including Worton Hall and the Victoria Arms public house who had one of the longest serving landlords in British pub history. Ralph Daykin was the publican at the Victoria Arms between 1956 and 2013. References External links Map of the hamlet Villages in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wensleydale School
The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form is a coeducational comprehensive school situated on Richmond Road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England. History When the Wensleydale School opened in 1959 as Leyburn County Modern School, it became the community school for the whole of Wensleydale and, in 1971 it reached further when it became a comprehensive school by combining with Yorebridge Grammar School in Askrigg. In 2008, the school opened a new Post-16 block. Through a partnership with Queen Elizabeth College Darlington, additional courses are offered to certain year students. Approximately 500 pupils attend the school, whose ages range from 11 - 16. The majority of pupils hail from eight small, local primary schools in the Wensleydale area, although its reach does stretch further. Awards In 2006 the school was awarded specialist school status as a Science College and gained a Healthy Schools award. Notable pupils * Nottingham Forrest centre back Michael Dawson attended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Burton Church Of England Primary School
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newbiggin Occupations Of Those Economically Active
Newbiggin may refer to several places in England: ;in Cumbria * Newbiggin, Ainstable, in the Eden district * Newbiggin, Dacre, in Eden district, west of Penrith * Newbiggin, Furness, in South Lakeland district * Newbiggin, Hutton Roof, in the parish of Hutton Roof * Newbiggin, Kirkby Thore, in Eden district, east of Penrith * Newbiggin-on-Lune, in Eden district, near Kirkby Stephen ;in Derbyshire *Newbiggin, a former name of Biggin (Dovedale and Parwich Ward) ;in County Durham * Newbiggin, Lanchester * Newbiggin, Teesdale ;in North Yorkshire * Newbiggin, Askrigg, on the north side of Wensleydale * Newbiggin, south Wensleydale Newbiggin is a village and civil parish in Bishopdale, a side dale on the south side of Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The population was estimated at 80 in 2012. In the 2011 census the parish was included w ..., on the south side of Wensleydale ;in Northumberland * Newbiggin-by-the-Sea See also * Newbigging ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornton Rust
Thornton Rust is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Yorkshire Dales about west of Aysgarth, high on the south bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale. History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 by the name ''Toreton''. At the time of the Norman invasion the manor belonged to ''Thor'', but afterwards was granted to ''Count Alan of Brittany''. A mesne lordship was held here by ''Sybil of Thornton'' in 1286, but the head tenant of the manor was Robert de Tateshall, who was also lord of Thorlaby manor. The descent of Thornton Rust manor followed that of Thoralby into the 19th century. The toponymy of the village name is derived from the combination of the Old English words of ''þorn'' and ''tūn'', which gave the meaning of ''Thorn tree farm'', and partly it is said from Bishop Restitutus, to whom the medieval chapel was claimed to have been dedicated, though evidence is lacking. The chapel no lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoralby
Thoralby is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies south of Aysgarth, is within a mile of both Newbiggin and West Burton and is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is south-west of the county town of Northallerton. History The village is mentioned in ''Domesday Book'' as ''Turoldesbi''. After the Norman invasion the lands were awarded to ''Count Alan of Brittany'', who granted the local manor to ''Bernwulf'', who had held the manor before that. The manor was eventually acquired by the lords of Middleham, whose descent it then followed until the Middleham manor holdings were sold piecemeal by commissioners of the Crown in the mid-17th century. The manor of Thoralby was purchased by the ''Norton'' family. By the middle of the 18th century it had passed to the ''Purchas'' family. On Thoralby Common the remains of lead mines and quarries are still visible, indicating the industrial past of the area. There has also been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Township (England)
In England, a township (Latin: ''villa'') is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration. The township is distinguished from the following: *Vill: traditionally, among legal historians, a ''vill'' referred to the tract of land of a rural community, whereas ''township'' was used when referring to the tax and legal administration of that community. *Chapelry: the 'parish' of a chapel (a church without full parochial functions). *Tithing: the basic unit of the medieval Frankpledge system. 'Township' is, however, sometimes used loosely for any of the above. History In many areas of England, the basic unit of civil administration was the parish, generally identical with the ecclesiastical parish. However, in some cases, particularly in Northern England, there was a lesser unit called a township, being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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