Bridge Hewick Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:54.1288°N -1.4842°W
Official Name:Bridge Hewick
Civil Parish:Bridge Hewick
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Post Town:RIPON
Postcode District:HG4
Postcode Area:HG
Os Grid Reference:SE338704
London Distance Mi:190
London Direction:SSE

Bridge Hewick is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the River Ure, and approximately 2miles east of the cathedral city of Ripon. The population was recorded at less than 100 at the 2011 Census. Details are included on the statistics of the civil parish of Copt Hewick. North Yorkshire County Council estimate that the population at the 2011 census was 50, which had risen to 60 by 2015.[1]

According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, 'Bridge Hewick' could be derived from the Old English 'brycg' for "at the bridge", with 'heah+wic', meaning a "high or chief dairy-farm". Hewick is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Heawic", in the Hallikeld Hundred of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Listed for the settlement are three ploughlands and a meadow of one acre. In 1066 the lord of Hewick was Ealdred, Archbishop of York; lordship in 1086, after the Conquest, was held by the following archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, who was also Tenant-in-chief to King William.[2] [3]

In 1837, Bridge Hewick population was 77.[4] In 1870–02 Bridge Hewick was a township of 867acres in the civil parish of Ripon, with a population of 89 in 18 houses.[5] A chapel in Bridge Hewick was in 1826 described as "in ruins".[6]

The Bridge Hewick local public house is the Black-A-Moor Inn.[7] The Bridge over the River Ure is the starting point of a circular walk around Ripon known as the Sanctuary Way Walk.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015 Population Estimates Parishes . northyorks.gov.uk . 1 April 2019 . 13 . PDF . 4 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf . dead .
  2. Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, p.237, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011).
  3. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE3471/bridge-hewick/ "(Bridge) Hewick"
  4. [Thomas Moule|Moule, Thomas]
  5. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12899 "Bridge Hewick West Riding"
  6. [Edward Cave|Urban, Sylvanus]
  7. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2898846 "The Black-A-Moor, Bridge Hewick"
  8. Web site: Ripon Sanctuary Makers Sanctuary Way Walk. lwda.org.uk. Rotary International. 3 February 2020. 1. PDF.