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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. The population was estimated at 70 in 2015.
Map of Warsill, Harrogate, UK
Warsill was historically an extra parochial area. It became a civil parish in 1858. Today it shares a grouped parish council with Bishop Thornton.
The toponym, first recorded in 1132 as Warthsala, probably derives from the Old English weard sæl, meaning "watch castle". 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.
References
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