Dunkeswick is a hamlet in
Harrogate District
The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. Its population at the census of 2011 was 157,869. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate, but it also includes surrounding towns ...
, North Yorkshire, just north of the
River Wharfe, off the
A61, around a kilometre north of
Harewood and two kilometres south of
Kirkby Overblow.
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 settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
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.
[Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017).]
History
The
war memorial 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 crash in 1995. On 24 May 1995, this scheduled flight from
Leeds Bradford Airport
Leeds Bradford Airport is located in Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, about northwest of Leeds city centre, and about northeast from Bradford city centre. It serves Leeds and Bradford and th ...
to
Aberdeen crashed shortly after take off, with the loss of all 12 passengers and crew on board.
References
Hamlets in North Yorkshire
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