Dunkeswick is a hamlet in

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, North Yorkshire, just north of the

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, off the A61, around a kilometre north of Harewood and two kilometres south of

Kirkby Overblow Kirkby Overblow is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Wetherby and Harrogate and lies to the west of Sicklinghall and the east of Leeds Bradford International Airport. It ...

Etymology

The name of Dunkeswick comes 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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...

words '' cēse'' ('cheese') and '' wīc'' ('dwelling, specialised farm'), and thus once meant 'farm specialising in cheese production'. The fact that ''keswick'' begins with rather than the [] sound of ''cheese'', however, reflects the influence of Old Norse pronunciation on the local language. The additional element ''Dun'' seems to have been added to distinguish the settlement from other places called Keswick, such as the nearby

East Keswick East Keswick is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It lies four miles south west of Wetherby. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 1,146. Etymology The name o ...

.Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'',

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City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017).

History

The

war memorial A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war. Symbolism Historical usage It has ...

from Dunkeswick Methodist Chapel was housed in Harewood Methodist Chapel after the closure of Dunkeswick chapel. Harewood Methodist Chapel has since closed. Dunkewsick Moor is noted as the site of the

Knight Air Flight 816 Knight Air Flight 816, being flown by G-OEAA, an Embraer 110 Bandeirante belonging to Knight Air, was an internal (domestic) scheduled flight operating between Leeds Bradford and Aberdeen airports on 24 May 1995, which crashed with the loss of ...

crash in 1995. On 24 May 1995, this scheduled flight from Leeds Bradford Airport to

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crashed shortly after take off, with the loss of all 12 passengers and crew on board.

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