Gisburn

Coordinates: 53°55′55″N 2°15′54″W / 53.932°N 2.265°W / 53.932; -2.265
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Gisburn
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCLITHEROE
Postcode districtBB7
Dialling code01200
PoliceLancashire
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Lancashire
53°55′55″N 2°15′54″W / 53.932°N 2.265°W / 53.932; -2.265

Gisburn (formerly Gisburne) is a village and

2001 census,[2] increasing to 521 at the 2011 Census.[1]

The civil parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Horton, Paythorne, Sawley and Rimington and the Pendle parish of Bracewell and Brogden.

Etymology

Gisburn is first named in the

Old English word *gysel ('gushing') and the common Old English word burna ('stream'). It is possible, however, that the first element was originally an Old English personal name *Gysla. Thus the name once meant either 'gushing stream' or 'Gysla's stream'.[3]

The former spelling of Gisburne was phased out after the introduction of railways in the parish.

Beeching Axe in 1962. Gisburne and similar spellings were also sometimes used for Guisborough, also in Yorkshire (now in North Yorkshire), leading to Gisburn often being referred to as "Gisburn in Craven
".

Geography

Gisburn lies within a rural area, surrounded by hilly and relatively unpopulated areas, with

Bowland Forest to the west, Pendle Hill to the south, and the Yorkshire Dales and Pennines not far to the north and east. The relatively flat Ribble valley runs through the parish with the A59
running parallel.

History

Gisburn's ancient parish, broken into its modern civil parishes, is shown here with purple boundaries, with Gisburn civil parish shaded blue. This map shows how Gisburn forms part of the Yorkshire territory which has been administered as part of Lancashire. Lancashire's ancient boundaries are in red, and administrative boundaries are in green.

The old

Roman road from Ribchester to Ilkley passes to the south of the modern civil parish, with the remains of a 4th-century Romano-British farmstead known as Bomber Camp located just over the boundary with Bracewell and Brogden.[4]

The layout of this

linear village, with properties facing the main street and tenement plots running down to a back lane, is common of many established in the tenth century.[5]

The manor of Gisburn was part of the Percy Fee which was listed under Craven in the Domesday Book.[6] In the 1140s, William de Percy II, granted the Dudland area, in the southwest of the parish, to the Cistercian monks who founded Sawley Abbey.[7] And in 1242, William de Percy, 6th Baron Percy donated the manor.[8] By 1571, the manor was among the former monastic lands owned by Henry Darcy, the son of Sir Arthur Darcy. He sold it to William Lister.[6]

Gisburn was the centre of a large

ancient parish, which also included the townships of Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme, Horton, Rimington, Middop, Nappa and Swinden.[9]

In 1612 a village resident, Jennet Preston, was tried at the

Lancashire witch trials, accused of causing the death of Thomas Lister by witchcraft. Her trial took place in York as the village then lay within Yorkshire. Preston was found guilty and was hanged at York Knavesmire
.

Markets were held on Main Street until 1911, when the livestock market moved to its present site at the western end of the village next to the former railway station.[5]

The

National Trail and Ribble Way
pass through the parish, with former crossing Gisburne Park and the latter following roads through the village. [10][11]

Governance

Gisburn was

Wapentake of Staincliffe. All these townships became separate civil parishes in 1866, and all except two became part of Bowland Rural District when it was formed in 1894.[12] Gisburn and the other parishes of Bowland Rural District were transferred from Yorkshire to Lancashire in 1974. Nappa and Swinden became part of Settle Rural District in 1894,[13] and remained in Yorkshire in 1974 as part of the new county of North Yorkshire
.

The civil parish previously had a detached area on the western side of Sawley, with a larger part of that parish on the southern side of Gisburn. In 1938 these areas were joined with the respective parishes.[12]

Along with Rimington, Middop, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington

ward of Ribble Valley
Borough Council. [14][15] The ward had a population of 1287 in 2001,[16] rising to 1405 in 2011.[17] The ward elects a single councillor, who currently is Richard Sherras of the Conservative Party.[18]

Landmarks

The entrance to Gisburne Park

Gisburne Park

Main article: Gisburne Park

To the north of the village, between it and the River Ribble is a 68 hectares (168 acres) 18th-century former deer park and country house, today used as a private hospital, equestrian centre and the Ribblesdale Holiday Park.

The present

Register of Historic Parks and Gardens and contains a number of notable buildings including the gate lodges at the principal entrance from the village which are listed Grade II*.[19]

Church of St Mary the Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin

In the graveyard lies buried one of England's greatest writers of hymn tunes, Francis Duckworth (1862–1941). His most famous tune is "Rimington", to which several hymns including Jesu Shall Reign Where'er the Sun may be sung. The opening lines of the tune are inscribed on his gravestone.[20]

The church is a Grade II* listed building. The south porch has a wide outer entrance with moulded round arch and moulded imposts. The inner door, probably C13th, has a pointed arch with two orders of sunk quadrant moulding. The porch roof has two short king posts rising from collars.[21]

In May 2015 it was announced that a rare King James Version of the Bible, printed in 1611, had been found at the church.[22]

Notable people

  • Richard Wright (1877–1942), cricketer and educator, was born in Gisburn

See also

References

  1. ^
    Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Ward populations". Ribble Valley Borough Council. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  3. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001
    .
  4. ^ Historic England. "Bomber Camp Romano-British farmstead (1013817)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Gisburn Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). Ribble Valley Borough Council. October 2005. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  6. ^
    OCLC 504073084
    , retrieved 27 May 2024
  7. ^ Charles Travis Clay; William Farrer, eds. (2013). Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 11, The Percy Fee. Cambridge University Press. pp. 26–28.
  8. ISBN 9781108058797
  9. ^ GENUKI: Yorkshire, West Riding - Gisburn
  10. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Pennine Bridleway — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  11. ^ MKH Computer Services Ltd. "Ribble Way — LDWA Long Distance Paths". Ldwa.org.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  12. ^ a b "Gisburn AP/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Settle RD through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Gisburn, Rimington". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  15. ^ "Gisburn, Rimington". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  16. ^ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  17. ^ "Gisburn, Rimington ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  18. ^ "Councillors by Ward: Gisburn, Rimington". Ribble Valley Borough Council. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  19. ^ Historic England, "Gisburne Park (1400674)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 March 2016
  20. ^ "The Life of Francis Duckworth (1862-1941)" at gisburn.org.uk
  21. ^ Historic England. "Church of St. Mary, Gisburn (1164472)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  22. ^ "Rare 1611 'Great She Bible' found in Lancashire church". BBC News. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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