Raw is a hamlet in the
Borough of Scarborough of
North Yorkshire
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, England, near to the villages of
Fylingthorpe
Fylingthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Fylingdales in the Borough of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England.
Geography
Fylingthorpe is located about inland from the coast of the North Sea, and about from Robin Hood's Bay, the ...
,
Robin Hood's Bay
Robin Hood's Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located in the North York Moors National Park, south of Whitby and north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Bay Town, its local name, is in the ancient chapelry of ...
, and
Hawsker
Hawsker is the name for the combined villages of High and Low Hawsker that straddle the A171 road south east of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England.
History
The name Hawsker derives from Old Norse and means Haukr's enclosure. The settlement ...
. The hamlet is mostly agricultural in nature and it lies north-west of Fylingthorpe, south-east of
Whitby
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, and due east of the
A171 road
The A171 is a road in England that links the North Yorkshire towns of Middlesbrough, Guisborough, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay and Scarborough. Locally it is known as The Moor Road. The road is mostly single carriageway but has some sections of du ...
.
History
The hamlet of Raw is believed to have been settled around the year 1000 by
Norwegians and Danes. Later, after
the Conquest and an uprising, the land is thought to have been laid to waste by
William the Conqueror
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. The hamlet is thought to have housed the first dwellings in the area when the settlers were only part-time fishermen. In 1563, the manor of Fyling Raw, along with Fylingthorpe, was bought by Sir Richard Cholmley, who then owned most of the land in the
wapentake
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of
Whitby Strand
Whitby Strand was a wapentake and liberty in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was one of thirteen wapentakes across the old North Riding of Yorkshire. The division of the area into the Liberty and Wapentake of Whitby Strand occurred in ...
. An inquiry by
Queen Elizabeth I
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El ...
in 1588 about possible warnings of the
Spanish Armada, reported that ''Filingdaill'' (Fylingdales) had three beacons, one of which is believed to be Beacon Hill ( above
Ordnance Datum) next to the hamlet of Raw.
By the 19th century, hamlets around Robin Hood's Bay (Thorp, Raw and Normanby) were the agricultural areas to Robin Hood's Bay's maritime industry.
Originally, the hamlet was known as ''Row'' (IE a row of houses), and appeared as such on a map from 1775. At some point, this was changed to ''Fyling Rawe'', and then ''Raw''. It is listed as ''Row'' in the ''History and Topography of the City of York: and the North Riding of Yorkshire'', and mapping from 1910 shows it as ''Row''. Quarries to the west of Raw used to provide raw materials for a brick and tile works in the hamlet.
In February 1943, a
Wellington
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aircraft on a training flight crashed at Skerry Hall farm, south of the hamlet. All of the aircrew survived.
The hamlet consists of 19 dwellings, which are located wholly within the parish of Fylingdales, however, the land in the village is split between the parishes of
Fylingdales
Fylingdales is a civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England situated south of Whitby, within the North York Moors National Park. It contains the villages of Robin Hood's Bay and Fylingthorpe and Fyling Hall School.
...
and
Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre
Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre is a civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England.
According to the 2011 UK census, Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre parish had a population of 790, up from the 2001 UK census figure of 763.
There is a ...
.
The moorland to the east and south of Raw is maintained by the Manor of Fyling Court Leet, and is designated as an
SSSI.
The former parish church for Fylingdales,
Church of St Stephen, which sits on the hill overlooking Fylingthorpe, is sometimes labelled as being in Raw, due to its proximity to the hamlet.
Governance
Historically in the wapentake of Whitby Strand, the
North Riding of Yorkshire, and wholly within the ecclesiastical parish, and township of Fylingdales, the hamlet now straddles the boundary between two modern-day parishes. Raw is now part of the Borough of Scarborough, part of North Yorkshire, and lies wholly within the North York Moors National Park.
It is within the
Scarborough and Whitby constituency for the UK Government. The census returns for the hamlet in 1851, lists 143 people living there. The modern day population statistics are included in its two parishes, which in 2015 numbered 1,330 in Fylingdales, and 850 in Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre.
Notes
References
Sources
*{{cite book , last1=Gower , first1=E. , title=Robin Hood's Bay , date=1978 , publisher=Dalesman , location=Clapham , isbn=0852064624 , edition=3
External links
A map of the hamlet
Hamlets in North Yorkshire
Borough of Scarborough