Hawksworth, Guiseley
Coordinates: 53°52′23″N 1°45′04″W / 53.873°N 1.751°W
Hawksworth is a village 1 mile west of the town of Guiseley in West Yorkshire, England. It is located to the south of Menston and north of Baildon.
Hawksworth was historically a township in the large ancient parish of Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1] It became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1937 the civil parish was abolished and merged into the new Aireborough Urban District.[2] In 1974 Aireborough was itself abolished and absorbed into the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in the new county of West Yorkshire.
Hawksworth Hall, a Grade II* listed building, is a large house, probably built in the 16th century.[3] Hawksworth Church of England Primary School has around 100 pupils.[4]
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".[5]
References
- ↑ "The Ancient Parish of Otley". GenUKI. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ↑ Vision of Britain website
- ↑ English Heritage. Images of England 433659
- ↑ Hawksworth C of E School website
- ↑ Copeland, David (2010). "Introduction". Windyridge: a classic Yorkshire novel (new ed.). Jeremy Mills Publishing. pp. xlv–xlvii. ISBN 978-1-906600-18-1.