Hawksworth, Guiseley
| Hawksworth | |
|---|---|
 Old Lane, Hawksworth | |
  Hawksworth  Hawksworth Location within West Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE163418 |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS20 |
| Dialling code | 01943 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Hawksworth is a village 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the town of Guiseley, in the Leeds district, in West Yorkshire, England. It is located to the south of Menston and north of Baildon.
Etymology
[edit]The name of Hawksworth is first attested in a charter of 1030 in the phrase on Hafeces-weorðe, and then in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the form Hauochesuurde and variants thereof. The Old English word hafoces meant 'hawk's', but the word is thought in this place-name to have been a personal name; worð, meanwhile, means 'enclosure'. Thus the name once meant 'enclosure belonging to Hafoc'.[1]
History
[edit]Hawksworth Hall, a Grade II* listed building, is a large house, probably built in the 16th century.[2] Hawksworth Church of England Primary School has around 100 pupils.[3]
Hawksworth is the model for the fictional village of "Windyridge" in the best-selling 1912 novel of that name by Willie Riley. The central character, London artist and photographer Grace Holden, finds the village by chance and decides to rent a cottage there for a year. Until the 1940s the village was often visited by readers looking for "Windyridge".[4]
Governance
[edit]Hawksworth was historically a township in the ancient parish of Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[5] It became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1937 the civil parish was abolished and merged into the Aireborough Urban District.[6] In 1974 Aireborough was abolished and absorbed into Leeds metropolitan district in West Yorkshire. It is in the Guiseley and Rawdon Ward of Leeds City Council. In 1931 the parish had a population of 769.[7]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), pp. 52-53.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1251067)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ Hawksworth C of E School website
- ^ Copeland, David (2010). "Introduction". Windyridge: a classic Yorkshire novel (new ed.). Jeremy Mills Publishing. pp. xlv–xlvii. ISBN 978-1-906600-18-1.
- ^ "The Ancient Parish of Otley". GenUKI. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Vision of Britain website
- ^ "Population statistics Hawksworth Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
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