Warsill

Warsill
Civil parish
Coordinates: 54°05′N 1°39′W / 54.08°N 1.65°W / 54.08; -1.65Coordinates: 54°05′N 1°39′W / 54.08°N 1.65°W / 54.08; -1.65
Country England
Primary council Harrogate
County North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Status Parish
Government
 • Type Grouped parish Council
 • UK Parliament Skipton and Ripon
 • EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
Area
 • Total 416 ha (1,029 acres)
Population (2015)
 • Total 70
 • Density 17/km2 (44/sq mi)

Warsill is a civil parish in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England. There is no village in the parish. It consists of a few scattered farms 5 miles (8 km) north west of Ripon. In 1961 the population of the parish was 42.[1] The population was estimated at 70 in 2015.[2]

Warsill was historically an extra parochial area. It became a civil parish in 1858.[3] Today it shares a grouped parish council with Bishop Thornton.[4]

The toponym, first recorded in 1132 as Warthsala, probably derives from the Old English weard sæl, meaning "watch castle".[5] In the Middle Ages there was a grange of Fountains Abbey here, and Warsill Hall Farmhouse, a 17th-century Grade II listed building, now stands on its site.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Vision of Britain: Census Reports
  2. ↑ "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2017. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Hartwith cum Winsley and not counted separately.
  3. ↑ Vision of Britain website
  4. ↑ Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill Parish Web Portal
  5. ↑ Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 186.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (434484)". Images of England. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
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