• High and Low Hawsker
Platform at Hawsker Station with former railway carriages.
Hawsker is located in North Yorkshire
Hawsker
Hawsker
Location within North Yorkshire
Population790 [1]
OS grid referenceNZ925076
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Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWhitby
Postcode districtYO22
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54°27′20″N 0°34′24″W / 54.455677°N 0.573331°W / 54.455677; -0.573331

Hawsker is the name for the combined villages of High and Low Hawsker that straddle the A171 road 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England.

History

The name Hawsker derives from Old Norse and means Haukr's enclosure.[2] The settlement was listed in the Domesday Book as belonging to Earl Hugh in Nortreding.[3]

Hawsker was originally in the parish of Whitby,[4] but in 1878 it was split off into its own parish[5] (Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre)[6] along with neighbouring hamlet of Stainsacre where the parish church of All Saints is located.[7] the population of the parish is 790 and includes the hamlet of Stainsacre and the wider parish which amounts to over 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) in area.[1]

The two settlements of High and Low Hawsker are divided by the A171 road between Whitby and Scarborough; Low Hawsker lies to the west of the road and High Hawsker lies to the east.[8] Low Hawsker used to have a working windmill; this was built in 1861 by George Burnett and was known to be in use up until 1915. The upper storeys were removed in 1960, but the lower portion is still in the village.[9]

Between July 1885 and March 1965, Hawsker had a station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway line.[10] The track was left in situ for potash traffic that never was realised,[11] however, a new potash mine at Sneatonthorpe (to the west)[12] is due to open for mining in 2021.[13] The trackbed is now a long-distance path and cycleway, with the old station now housing a cycle hire business.[14]

There is a primary school in the village that caters to students from the Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre parish[15] and was rated as being 'Good' by Ofsted in 2013.[16] Caedmon College and Eskdale School, both in Whitby, provide secondary education for students from Hawsker and Stainsacre.[17]

An hourly bus service connects the village with Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, and Scarborough. This is increased to half-hourly through the summer daytime.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Area: Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 14 April 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 227. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  3. ^ Horsfall-Turner, J (1908). Yorkshire place names : as recorded in the Yorkshire Domesday Book, 1086. Bingley: J H Turner. p. 131. OCLC 181784558.
  4. ^ Langdale, Thomas (1809). topographical dictionary of Yorkshire : containing the names of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemen's seats, &c. in the county of York (2 ed.). Northallerton: Langdale. p. 31. OCLC 427481667.
  5. ^ "Parishes: Whitby | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre". ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Hawsker Lane (Grade II) (1148754)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  8. ^ "OL27" (Map). North York Moors. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319242667.
  9. ^ "Hidden Teesside - Hawsker Windmill". hidden-teesside.co.uk. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Disused Stations: Hawsker Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  11. ^ Lidster, J. Robin (2010). Scarborough and Whitby railway through time (1 ed.). Stroud: Amberley. p. 87. ISBN 9781848686687.
  12. ^ "Miners shell out for Doves Nest Farm". Whitby Gazette. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  13. ^ "North York Moors potash mine ready by 2021, company says". BBC News. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Scarborough to Whitby - Map". Sustrans. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Hawsker Primary School". hawskerschool.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Hawsker Cum Stainsacre Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  17. ^ "Secondary admission arrangements for the Scarborough and Ryedale area". www.northyorks.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Middlesbrough – Whitby – Robin Hoods Bay – Scarborough X93" (PDF). connectteesvalley.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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