Green Hammerton
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Green Hammerton is a village and
(H)ambretone, a place-name reflected now both in Kirk Hammerton ('Hammerton with the church', from Old Norse kirkja 'church') and in Green Hammerton ('Hammerton with the green', from Middle English grene), is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The village has a Church of England parish church, St Thomas' Church (see 'External Links' below for a survey of burials in the churchyard) and a church primary school, both located in the centre of the village.[5] The former Congregational church in Green Hammerton, originally built as a Methodist Chapel in the late 1790s, was adapted for use as a Roman Catholic Church, St Josephs, in 1961.[6]
The village pub is the Bay Horse Inn.[7] Green Hammerton Village Hall opened in April 2010: it is run by the Green Hammerton Recreational Charity.[8]
Green Hammerton comes under the
Notable people
- neurologist[9]
References
- Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Burn, Chris (12 October 2017). "Villagers and council divided by plan for new town between Harrogate and York". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "[Green] Hammerton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). "Kirk HAMMERTON". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Green Hammerton CE Primary School". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "St Joseph's Church, Green Hammerton". The Press. York. Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "The Bay Horse Inn, Green Hammerton". Archived from the original on 14 February 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "Green Hammerton Village Hall". Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34137. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
Media related to Green Hammerton at Wikimedia Commons
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