Hackness

Hackness is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies within the North York Moors National Park. The parish population rose from 125 in the 2001 UK census to 221 in the 2011 UK census.[1]

Hackness
Hackness Location within North Yorkshire
Population	221 Including Broxa-cum-Troutsdale and Darncombe-cum-Langdale Edge. 2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SE969906
Civil parish	Hackness
District	Scarborough
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SCARBOROUGH
Postcode district	YO13
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Scarborough and Whitby

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.[2]

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.[3]

Hackness Hall, designed by Peter Atkinson c. 1795

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.[4]

Governance

Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council covers a total of the six parishes: Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Darncombe-cum-Langdale End, Hackness, Harwood Dale, Silpho and Suffield-cum-Everley.[5]

Sports

There is a tennis club in the village with three grass courts and two hard courts, on the road to Lowdales and Highdales. The club was able to celebrate 90 years of tennis in Hackness in 2013.[6]

Notable people

In birth order:

• Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby (1566–1640) was lord of the manor and a possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio in Twelfth Night.[7]
• Margaret, Lady Hoby (1571–1633) kept the earliest known female diary in English (1599–1605).[8]
• Matthew Noble (1818–1876), sculptor, made the bust of William Smith (geologist), who was employed at Hackness Hall.[9]
• Arthur Irvin (1848–1945), cricketer and clergyman.
• Hilda of Whitby, died in Hackness.

References

1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Hackness Parish (E04007679)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
2. "Church of St Peter, Hackness". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
3. Blair, John (2005). The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. Oxford University Press. pp. 145–147. ISBN 978-0-19-921117-3.
4. "Hackness Hall and Railings and Railings Attached to Terrace on Garden Front, Hackness". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
5. "Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council". Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council. Retrieved 5 July 2008.
6. "Hackness Tennis Club". Lawn Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
7. J. L. Simmons, "A Source for Shakespeare's Malvolio: The Elizabethan Controversy with the Puritans" in Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 36 (May 1973), pp. 181–201
8. Margaret Hoby [née Dakins], 1571–1633. In: The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1993). http://www.credoreference.com/entry/camgwwie/hoby_n%C3%A9e_dakins_margaret_1571_1633 Retrieved 3 September 2012.]
9. Geological Society site

External links

• Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council website