Hackness
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Hackness is a village and
2011 UK census.[1]
Heritage
Hackness is mentioned as the site of a
nunnery by Bede, writing in the early 8th century. The present Church of Saint Peter is a Grade I listed building, parts of which date from the 11th century.[2]
The church also possesses fragments of a
runic alphabet.[3]
Peter Atkinson
c. 1795Hackness Hall and its landscape gardens were created in the 1790s. The house, a Grade I listed building, was commissioned by
Sir Richard Van den Bempde-Johnstone, who had inherited the estate through his mother. A new entrance was added in 1810. Fire damage in 1910 was restored under the direction of Walter Brierley.[4]
Governance
Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council covers a total of the six parishes: Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Darncombe-cum-Langdale End, Hackness, Harwood Dale, Silpho and Suffield-cum-Everley.[5]
Sports
There is a tennis club in the village with three grass courts and two hard courts, on the road to Lowdales and Highdales. The club was able to celebrate 90 years of tennis in Hackness in 2013.[6]
Notable people
In birth order:
- Hilda of Whitby (c. 614–680), saint, died in Hackness.
- Begu (nun) (died 690), saint, lived in the Nunnery in Hackness.
- Lady Margaret Hoby (1571–1633) was lady of the manor, kept the earliest known female diary in English (1599–1605).[7][8]
- Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby (1566–1640) was lord of the manor, as his wife's heir, and a possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio in Twelfth Night.[9][8]
- Matthew Noble (1818–1876), sculptor, made the bust of William Smith (geologist), who was employed at Hackness Hall.[10]
- Arthur Irvin (1848–1945), cricketer and clergyman
References
- ^ Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter, Hackness (1296564)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-19-921117-3.
- ^ "Hackness Hall and Railings and Railings Attached to Terrace on Garden Front, Hackness". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ "Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council". Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council. Retrieved 5 July 2008.
- ^ "Hackness Tennis Club". Lawn Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ Margaret Hoby [née Dakins], 1571–1633. In: The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1993). http://www.credoreference.com/entry/camgwwie/hoby_n%C3%A9e_dakins_margaret_1571_1633 Retrieved 3 September 2012.]
- ^ a b Meyrick, Catherine (22 August 2017). "Margaret, Lady Hoby (1571-1633)". Early Modern Women. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ J. L. Simmons, "A Source for Shakespeare's Malvolio: The Elizabethan Controversy with the Puritans" in Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 36 (May 1973), pp. 181–201
- ^ Geological Society site
External links
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