Fryup
| Fryup | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Applegarth Farm. Great Fryup Dale | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ720046 |
| Location: | 54°25’55"N, -0°53’27"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | YO21 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Scarborough |
Fryup is a hamlet in the North Riding of Yorkshire, within the parish of Danby. It is a diffuse place with Fryup Hall at its heart, if heart it has, beside the Great Fryup Beck, which waters Great Fryup Dale.
The cottages of Fryup stand at the head of the dales. Fryup is separated into two small dales, called Great Fryup Dale and Little Fryup Dale. Most of the folk people live in Great Fryup Dale, and Little Fryup has only 8 or 9 farms and cottages. Great Fryup has no shops nor even a pub. There is a telephone box, post box and village hall. There is also a local cricket pitch and quoits pitch.
An old woman at Fryup was well known locally for keeping the "Mark's e'en watch" (24 April), as she lived alongside a corpse road known as the "Old Hell Road". In this, a village seer would hold a vigil between 11 pm and 1 am, in order to look for the wraiths of those who would die in the following 12-month period.
The name of Fryup is from Old English and possibly from a name like Frige-hop: the word hop denoted a small valley, while Frige may be the Anglo-Saxon goddess of that name;.[1]
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- ↑ Margaret Gelling, 'Place-Names and Anglo-Saxon Paganism', University of Birmingham Historical Journal, 8 (1962), 7–25, at 11-12; Nicholas Brooks, Margaret Gelling and Douglas Johnson, 'A New Charter of King Edgar', Anglo-Saxon England, 13 (1984), 137–55 at 150–1.