Harewood ( ) is a village,

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, former manor and ecclesiastical parish, in

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, England, today in the metropolitan borough of the

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. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 3,734.

Etymology

The name of Harewood is first attested in the tenth-century

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manuscript, in the form ''æt Harawuda'' ('at Harewood'); it is next attested in the

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of 1086, as ''Hareuuode''. Although consideration has been given to an origin involving the Old English word ''hār'' ('grey'), commentators agree that, as the name's present-day form suggests, the name comes from the

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words ''hara'' (' hare') and ''wudu'' ('wood'). Thus it once meant 'wood characterised by hares'.

Location

Harewood sits in the Harewood

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and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. The A61 from Leeds city centre to

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passes through the village. The A659 from Collingham joins the A61 outside the main entrance to

Harewood House Harewood House ( , ) is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built, between 1759 and 1771, for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy West Indian plantation ...

( ) to descend the slopes of the Wharfe valley before continuing towards

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Amenities

The Harewood Arms

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and hotel is opposite the entrance to the Harewood Estate. Other facilities in the village include a medical centre, mobile library, community cafe, and a village hall. It is the location of the UK's longest motorsport hillclimb,

Harewood speed Hillclimb Harewood ''speed'' Hillclimb (the form with italics and a lower-case s is used officially) is a hillclimb near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. The track can be found on the A659 between Harewood village and Collingham, north ...

(pronounced ). The exterior set for the

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'' is located in the Harewood estate.

Education

Harewood C of E Primary School is a state-funded

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which stands opposite the grounds of the Harewood estate on the A61 and was built by the estate in 1864 for estate workers' children. In 2005 and 2008 the school was awarded "outstanding" grading following Ofsted inspections. The school maintains its historic links with the estate, the children regularly use its grounds and educational facilities. Gateways School is an independent private school with a

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. The junior school and nursery are co-educational, admitting boys and girls to age 11.

Manor

The manor of Harewood was the seat of the de Romelli family, from which it passed by marriage of the heiress Avice de Romelli to her husband William de Curcy II (d. circa 1130), feudal baron of Stoke Curcy (now Stogursey) in Somerset, whose granddaughter and eventual heiress Alice de Curcy (sister and heiress of William de Curcy IV (d.1194)) married Warin FitzGerold (1167-post-1216), eldest son and heir of Henry FitzGerold (d.1174/5), Chamberlain to King Henry II. Alice's daughter and sole heiress was Margaret FitzGerold, who married Baldwin de Redvers (1200–1216), eldest son and

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(d.1217) and father of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon. The eventual heiress was Isabel de Forz, eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217–1245). Her heir to the manor of Harewood was her distant cousin Warin de Lisle (d.1296) of Cambridgeshire, whose paternal grandmother was Alice FitzGerold. The De Lisle family then moved their seat to

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within the manor of Harewood. Warin's son was

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(title created 1311) called "of Rougemont" to distinguish his family from the unrelated

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"of Wootton, Isle of Wight", created in 1299. The site of Rougemont Castle was abandoned in about 1366 when the Lisle family built

Harewood Castle Harewood Castle is a 14th-century stone hall house and courtyard fortress, located on the Harewood Estate, Harewood, in West Yorkshire, England (Grid Reference SE 322457). Harewood Castle is a grade I listed building. History The castle was ...

nearby, of which much of the ruined stone structure survives, also hidden in overgrown woodland. Harewood Castle itself was abandoned as a residence soon after 1600 when it was owned by Sir William Wentworth of Gawthorpe Hall. The manor of Harewood containing both ruined castles was purchased in 1738 by the Lascelles family, which built there as its seat the surviving palatial 18th-century mansion known as

, still owned by the family, which was created

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in 1812.

Harewood House

, a country house was designed by architects John Carr and

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, and built between 1759 and 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood. Its garden of more than is set in a landscape of designed by

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All Saints' Church

All Saints' Church, the former parish church, stands to the west of the village, in the grounds of Harewood House which was built in the 18th century. The village was relocated in the late 18th century, leaving the church isolated from the village population. It is a Grade I

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but is no longer used regularly for worship and is in the care of the

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References

External links

Harewood Parish Council Website
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