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OS grid reference
  
SE969906

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Tuesday 12:20 PM

District
  
Borough of Scarborough

Civil parish
  
Hackness

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
North Yorkshire

UK parliament constituency
  
Scarborough and Whitby

Hackness

Population
  
221 (Including Broxa-cum-Troutsdale and Darncombe-cum-Langdale Edge. 2011 census)

Region
  
Yorkshire and the Humber

Weather
  
12°C, Wind W at 32 km/h, 82% Humidity

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Hackness is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park.

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Map of Hackness, Scarborough, UK

Hackness is mentioned as the site of a double monastery or nunnery by Bede, writing in the early 8th century. The church of Saint Peter, a Grade I listed building parts of which date from the 11th century, 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.

Hackness Hall and its landscape gardens were created in the 1790s. The house, a Grade I listed building, was commissioned by Sir 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.

According to the 2011 UK census, Hackness parish had a population of 221, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 125.

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.

There is a tennis club in the village with three grass courts and two tarmac courts, situated on the road to Lowdales and Highdales. The Club recently celebrated 90 years of tennis in Hackness in 2013.

Hackness north york moors 23 september 2014


Notable people

  • Margaret, Lady Hoby (1571–1633), who kept the earliest known female diary in English (1599–1605)
  • Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby (1566–1640), lord of the manor and a possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
  • Matthew Noble (1818–1876), sculptor, did the bust of William Smith (geologist), who was employed at Hackness Hall.
  • References

    Hackness Wikipedia