Hackness
| Hackness | |
| Yorkshire North Riding | |
|---|---|
 Hackness Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE969906 |
| Location: | 54°18’6"N, 0°30’40"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 221 (2011, with hamlets) |
| Post town: | Scarborough |
| Postcode: | YO13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Scarborough and Whitby |
Hackness is a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, within the North York Moors and the eponymous National Park. The parish population was recorded at 221 by the 2011 census.
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Heritage
Hackness is mentioned as the site of a double monastery or nunnery by Bede, writing in the early 8th century. The present Church of Saint Peter is a Grade I listed building, parts of which date from the 11th century.[1]
The church also possesses fragments of a high cross dating from the late 8th or early 9th century. These preserve parts of a Latin prayer for Saint Æthelburh and an illegible inscription, apparently in the runic alphabet.[2]
Hackness Hall and its landscape gardens were created in the 1790s. The house, a Grade I listed building, was commissioned by Richard Van den Bempde-Johnstone, who had inherited the estate through his mother. A new entrance was added in 1810. Fire damage in 1910 was restored under the direction of Walter Brierley.[3]
Sports
- Tennis
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hackness) |
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1296564: Church of St Peter, Hackness (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Blair, John (2005). The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. Oxford University Press. pp. 145–147. ISBN 978-0-19-921117-3.
- ↑ "Hackness Hall and Railings and Railings Attached to Terrace on Garden Front, Hackness". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-327371-hackness-hall-and-railings-and-railings-. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
