Hackness

Hackness
Hackness

 Hackness shown within North Yorkshire
Population 125 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference SE969906
Parish Hackness
District Scarborough
Shire county North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SCARBOROUGH
Postcode district YO13
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament Scarborough and Whitby
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Hackness is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Hackness is mentioned as the site of a double monastery or nunnery by Bede, writing in the early 8th century. The church of Saint Mary has fragments of a high cross dating from the late 8th or early 9th century. The fragments preserve parts of a Latin prayer for Saint Æthelburh and an illegible inscription apparently in the runic alphabet.[2]

The village was the birthplace of British sculptor Matthew Noble

According to the 2001 UK census, Hackness parish had a population of 125.[1]

The parish council is Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council which covers the six parishes of Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Darncombe-cum-Langdale End, Hackness, Harwood Dale, Silpho and Suffield-cum-Everley.[3]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ a b "2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Hackness CP (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=798200&c=Hackness&d=16&e=15&g=476930&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1215470106365&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 2008-07-07. 
  2. ^ Blair, John (2005). The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. Oxford University Press. pp. 145–147. ISBN 978-0-19-921117-3. 
  3. ^ "Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council". Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council. http://www.hacknessgroupparishcouncil.org.uk/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-05. 

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