Hawksworth, Guiseley
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Hawksworth is a village 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the town of Guiseley in West Yorkshire, England. It is located to the south of Menston and north of Baildon.
Etymology
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
Hawksworth Hall, a
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
Hawksworth was historically a
See also
References
- ^ 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
- ISBN 978-1-906600-18-1.
- ^ "The Ancient Parish of Otley". GenUKI. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Vision of Britain website
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
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