High Worsall Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:54.4782°N -1.4032°W
Label Position:bottom
Official Name:High Worsall
Static Image:High Worsall - geograph.org.uk - 204905.jpg
Static Image Caption:Site of the deserted village
Civil Parish:High Worsall
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Post Town:YARM
Postcode District:TS15
Postcode Area:TS
Os Grid Reference:NZ387093

High Worsall is a hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is near Low Worsall and 4miles west of Yarm. The population of the parish was estimated at 40 in 2010.[1] The population remained at less than 100 at the 2011 Census, so details were included in the civil parish of Low Worsall. However, in 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the hamlet to have 40 people living there in 2015.[2]

Both High and Low Worsall are mentioned in the Domesday Book,[3] and the first element derives from an Old English personal name (Wyrc) and the location of the villages in the nook of land of the River Tees provides the second element of the name.[4] [5] The area contains evidence of a deserted medieval village, featured on Time Team in the late 1990s.[6]

A chapel dedicated to St John was built in the village, which was used up until 1894, when a church was built in Low Worsall. The churchyard was still the location of burials until at least 1957.[7] [8]

High Worsall was the highest tidal point on the River Tees until the opening of the Tees Barrage in 1995.[9] [10] [11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: North Yorkshire County Council. Population Estimates. 2010. 27 June 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0. 13 January 2012.
  2. Web site: 2015 Population Estimates Parishes . northyorks.gov.uk . 21 May 2023. 11 . December 2016. 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. 4 June 2022. dead.
  3. Web site: [High] Worsall Domesday Book ]. opendomesday.org . 21 May 2023.
  4. Book: Smith . A. H. . The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire . 1979. 1928. 19714705. English Place Name Society. 174.
  5. Book: Ekwall . Eilert . Eilert Ekwall . The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names . 1960 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 0-19-869103-3 . 535 . 4.
  6. Web site: Daniels, R. (2009). The deserted medieval village of High Worsall, North Yorkshire. Durham Archaeological Journal 18. Vol 18, pp. 67-98. . archaeologydataservice.ac.uk . 21 May 2023.
  7. Book: Pevsner . Nikolaus . Yorkshire, the North Riding . 2002 . Yale University Press . 0-300-09665-8 . 402.
  8. Web site: Genuki: In 1822, the following places were in the Parish of Northallerton:, Yorkshire (North Riding) . www.genuki.org.uk . 21 May 2023.
  9. Book: Moorsom . Norman . The Book of Middlesbrough . 1986 . Barracuda Books . Buckingham . 0860232743 . 27.
  10. News: River flows to a cleaner future . The Times . 64276 . 10 March 1992 . 27. 0140-0460.
  11. News: Today's royal engagements . The Times . 65321 . 17 July 1995 . 20. 0140-0460.

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