| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 54.08°N -1.65°W |
| Official Name: | Warsill |
| Static Image Name: | Warsill Hall Farm - geograph.org.uk - 118646.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Warsill Hall Farm |
| Static Image Width: | 300px |
| Static Image 2 Name: | Warsill UK parish locator map.svg |
| Static Image 2 Width: | 300px |
| Map Type: | nomap |
| Population: | 70 |
| Population Ref: | (2015) |
| Civil Parish: | Warsill |
| Unitary England: | North Yorkshire |
| Lieutenancy England: | North Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituency Westminster: | Skipton and Ripon |
| Post Town: | HARROGATE |
| Postcode District: | HG3 |
| Postcode Area: | HG |
| Os Grid Reference: | SE226651 |
Warsill is a settlement and civil parish in the Harrogate district, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few scattered farms 5miles south west of Ripon. In 1961 the population of the parish was 42.[1] The population was estimated at 70 in 2015.[2]
Warsill was historically an extra parochial area. It became a civil parish in 1858.[3] Today it shares a grouped parish council with Bishop Thornton.[4]
The toponym, first recorded in 1132 as Warthsala, probably derives from the Old English weard sæl, meaning "watch castle".[5] In the Middle Ages there was a grange of Fountains Abbey here, later the home of Stephen Proctor.[6] Warsill Hall Farmhouse, a 17th-century Grade II listed building, now stands on its site.
The Abbey Grange at Warsill included a dairy farm, providing milk and cheese to the Abbey, and there were also sheep, with wethers kept over winter. In 1526, Peter and Agnes Smyth, employed as the keepers of Warsill, had a plough for arable.[7]
. Albert Hugh Smith. The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 5. Cambridge University Press. 1961. 186.