Healey is a small village and

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in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated in the valley of the River Burn, to the immediate west of

Fearby Fearby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located in the valley of the River Burn west of Masham. Nearby settlements include Healey, High Ellington and Swinton. The population of the ...

. It is about three miles west of

Masham Masham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 1,205 at the 2011 census. Etymology In Wensleydale, on the western bank of the River Ure, the name derives from the An ...

in the

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. There are several holiday cottages and four Grade II

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s, one of which is Healey Mill, a former corn mill. The civil parish includes

Leighton Reservoir Leighton Reservoir is a reservoir which drains via the River Burn to the River Ure in North Yorkshire, England. It neighbours Roundhill Reservoir and is about west of Masham. It takes its name from the nearby village of Leighton. Work on t ...

, the hamlet of Leighton, the hamlet of Gollinglith Foot in the lower part of

Colsterdale Colsterdale is the valley of the River Burn, North Yorkshire, River Burn, a tributary of the River Ure, in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It gives its name to a hamlet and civil parish in the upper part of the dale, about wes ...

and a large area of Masham Moor, a

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, rising to the summit of Great Haw, from the village at the western extremity of the parish. The population of the parish was estimated at 100 in 2013.

History

Healey was historically a

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in the large ancient parish of

in the

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in the

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. Healey became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1849. The civil parish of Healey with Sutton was formed in 1866. Sutton consists of a few farms (High Sutton, Low Sutton, Sutton Penn and Sutton Grange) north-east of Healey, and was transferred to the parish of Ellington High and Low in 1886. In 1934 of the uninhabited Masham Moor (which had been common to the parishes of Masham and

East Witton East Witton is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. It lies south of Leyburn, in the Richmondshire district. Richard Whiteley is buried there; he and his partner, Kathryn Apanowicz, lived in the village. ...

) were added to the civil parish, which was then renamed Healey.

Governance

Until 1974 Healey was part of Masham Rural District (before 1934 Masham Urban District) in the

. It is now part of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. The parish now shares a grouped parish council, known as Fearby, Healey and District Parish Council, with Colsterdale, Fearby,

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and

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Church

The church, dedicated to St Paul, is a Grade II*

completed in 1848. It was designed in the decorative style by the Victorian

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and has a central tower with a

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. The

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east window was donated by

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. The north window was commissioned by Lamb and bears his initials. The west window may also be to his design.

School

Kell Bank Church of England Primary School, midway between Healey and the neighbouring village of Fearby, serves both villages. It was founded in 1822 by William Heslington and William Danby. In 1890 it had an attendance of 60, but by February 2021 the school roll had fallen to only 6 pupils and plans were announced to close it.

References

External links

St Paul's Healey
{{authority control Civil parishes in North Yorkshire Villages in North Yorkshire