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Grassington is a village and
History
The
Originally the settlement was spelt as Gherinstone and also was documented as Garsington or Gersington. The name Grassington derives variously from the Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon and Gothic languages, and means either the town of the grassy ings or a farmstead surrounded by grass.[7][8]
Grassington was historically a township in the parish of Linton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866,[9] and was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Although often described by local people as a village, Grassington was granted a
Grassington & Threshfield Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1908. The club continued until the Second World War.[13]
Grassington was used as the setting for the fictional town of Darrowby in the 2020 Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small, instead of Thirsk where the actual story took place; Thirsk had simply become too large for the small-town feel that the series wanted.[14]
Grassington worked well for filming. "The nice thing was that there weren’t any modern houses in the town center ... so we didn’t have to change anything completely. What we did change were all the shop signs and the usual things like aerials, satellite dishes, alarm boxes and all of those things".[15]
A memorial of the trade unionist Tom Mann stands in front of the cottage where he died in Grassington.[16]
Culture and community
Grassington is the main residential and tourist centre in
The area is popular with walkers; one of the most popular routes is a circular walk that includes Burnsall.[20] Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association, based in Grassington, is a voluntary mountain rescue organisation which rescues people in trouble on the surrounding fells and in caves.[21]
Grassington Festival is a two-week-long annual event started in 1980, with music, performance and visual arts, held in a number of venues around the village.[22]
Every September since 2011, Grassington has held a 1940s themed weekend. Events include war re-enactments, dances and a variety of military and civilian vehicles on display from the period.[23]
In the winter Grassington holds the Dickensian Festival, with period costumes, Christmas activities and commercial selling.[24]
A
Three miles north of Grassington, at Kilnsey, is the glacially carved overhang of Kilnsey Crag.
Transport
Grassington is served by the
The DalesBus serves the community on certain days in summer; a report in August 2020 provided these specifics:[32]
"Grassington is served by daily bus service 72 from Skipton, with minibus 72B continuing further up Wharfedale to Kilnsey, Kettlewell and Buckden on Monday to Saturday. There are buses some days to Burnsall, Bolton Abbey and Ilkley. On Sundays, additional DalesBus services operate – including double-decker DalesBus 875 from Wakefield, Leeds and Ilkley to Grassington, Kettlewell and Buckden, continuing during the summer months to Aysgarth and Hawes in Wensleydale.
The village used to have a railway station terminus, which was shared with Threshfield, on the Yorkshire Dales Railway. The station was located on the west side of the River Wharfe, so it was not actually in Grassington. The line opened in July 1902 but closed down in September 1930 after only 28 years of service. The station remained open to freight and railtour traffic until 1969 when the tracks were removed to a point 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south, at the limestone quarry at Swinden.[33] Some of the quarry limestone continues to be transported by rail. The site of Grassington station is now a housing estate, but the Campaign for Better Transport have listed the Skipton to Grassington line as one which they wish to see re-opened to passenger traffic.[34]
Education
Grassington has a Church of England primary school located in the village and there is another primary school in nearby Threshfield.
Electricity generation
In 1909 Grassington received its first electricity from a
References
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- ^ "Grassington Parish Council Website". Grassington Parish Council. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- ^ "North Yorkshire District Council Website". North Yorkshire District Council. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- ^ "North Yorkshire Lieutenancy Website". North Yorkshire Lieutenancy. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-14-143994-5.
- ISBN 0-521-45098-5.
- OCLC 5824799.
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- ^ "Grassington CP/Tn through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-84162-323-8.
- ^ "Grassington Hall, Grassington". BritishListedBuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
- ^ "About us". Grassington Devonshire Institute. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Grassington & Threshfield Golf Club". Golf’s Missing Links. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ Blow, John (18 October 2019). "First look as Yorkshire Dales market town is transformed for All Creatures Great and Small reboot". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- ^ "Insider's Guide to the Yorkshire Dales Filming Locations". PBS. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
A private residence in Grassington provides the outside view of Skeldale House and the Darrowby Show episode occurs in the town's still-cobbled market square.
- OCLC 17776138.
- ^ "Grassington". yorkshiredales-trail.co.uk. Yorkshire Dales Trail. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Wharfedale". yorkshiresdales.org.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Welcome to the Grassington Folk Museum in Upper Wharfedale". Grassington Folk Museum. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Walks in Yorkshire". Walks in Yorkshire. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association". uwfra.org.uk. Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Grassington Festival". grassingtonfestival.org.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Grassington 1940s Weekend". grassington1940sweekend.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "About Grassington's Fabulous Dickensian Christmas Fair". grassingtondickensian.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Grass Wood". Retrieved 15 November 2008.
- ^ "Wharfedale and Littondale landscape character assessment" (PDF). yorkshiredales.org.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ Blow, John (18 October 2019). "First look as Yorkshire Dales market town is transformed for All Creatures Great and Small reboot". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- ^ Carr, Flora (2 September 2020). "Where is All Creatures Great and Small filmed?". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
Notes: While the original 1970s series used Askrigg as its stand-in for fictional village Darrowby, Channel 5 set their sights on Grassington, in the southern Dales. Various period buildings at Grassington were perfect for the show's 1930s setting, including local pub The Devonshire, which stood in for the exterior of the fictional The Drovers Arms. Local bookshop The Stripey Badger was also utilised in the show for scenes featuring greengrocer's G F Endleby.
- ISBN 9780319261965.
- ^ "B6265 (North Yorkshire)". sabre-roads.org.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Dalesbus Winter Timetable" (PDF). dalesbus.org. October 2016. pp. 16–21. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Grassington". DalesBus. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Wright, Paul. "Grassington & Threshfield". disused-stations.org. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Re-opening rail lines". bettertransport.org.uk. Yorkshire & Humber: Campaign for Better Transport. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Grassington Church Of England Admissions". grassingtonprimary.org.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Secondary admission arrangements for the Craven area". northyorks.gov.uk. North Yorkshire County Council. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Linton Falls hydroelectric plant supplies electricity again". BBC. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ Rose, Rhianna. "Linton Falls and Low Wood Hydropower Schemes utilising Scheduled Monuments to harbour modern power generation" (PDF). UK Water Projects Ltd. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
External links
- Map of the Grass Wood
- Grassington Lead Mining Trail by Craven & Pendle Geological Society Archived 4 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- Lead mines – Meerstones of Grassington Moor Archived 7 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine