Felliscliffe Explained

Felliscliffe is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, in Nidderdale, Borough of Harrogate. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 283. The principal settlement in the parish is the village of Kettlesing, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Swincliffe.

History

Felliscliffe was historically a township in the ancient parish of Hampsthwaite in the West Riding of Yorkshire,[1] first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Felgesclif,[2] apparently from an Old Danish personal name Felagh.[3]

The township served Fountains Abbey with flax, with monastery paths leading along Tang Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, still in existence. Traces of Iron Age and Roman settlements have been discovered in the parish, indicating that it has been inhabited continuously for several millennia.[4]

In 1866 Felliscliffe became a separate civil parish.[5] In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.

Location

The parish is west of Harrogate. It includes part of the US intelligence-gathering base at RAF Menwith Hill. Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary School is in Kettlesing.[6]

The parish skyline, on the ridge to the south of the A59, is now dominated by the eight 58m (190feet) wind turbine towers of the Knabs Ridge Wind Farm.[7] [8]

Notable residents

John Farrah owned two farms at Felliscliffe before he died in 1907.[9]

External links

54.0111°N -1.6528°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10430914#tab02 Vision of Britain: Hampsthwaite
  2. Web site: Catalogue description Place name: Felliscliffe, Yorkshire Folio: 300r Great Domesday Book Domesday.... 2 November 1086. National Archive of the UK.
  3. Book: Smith, A. H.. Albert Hugh Smith

    . Albert Hugh Smith. The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 5. Cambridge University Press. 1961. 132.

  4. Web site: Archaeological Sites in Kettlesing, North Yorkshire, (SE 22 56) . www.archiuk.com.
  5. Felliscliffe Tn/CP . https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10424574#tab02 . 1 February 2022.
  6. Web site: Contact Details . Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary School . 16 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150508171213/http://felliscliffen-yorks.co.uk/contact.asp . 8 May 2015 .
  7. Web site: Knabs Ridge Wind Farm . innogy.com . 7 September 2018 . 1.
  8. News: Gosden . Emily . Innogy investigates cause of Yorkshire wind turbine blaze . 7 September 2018 . The Telegraph . 2017.
  9. Sheppard . T. . Sheppard . T. . Woodhead . T.W. . In memoriam: John Farrah, F.R.S., F.R.Met.S (1849-1907) . The Naturalist . December 1907 . 1907 . 407, 412–414 . 11 May 2021 . A. Brown & Sons . London.