Halton Gill is a hamlet and civil parish in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) up Littondale from Litton. A minor road leads south west to Silverdale and Stainforth in Ribblesdale.[1]
| Halton Gill | |
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 Approaching Halton Gill from Pen-y-ghent | |
.svg)  Halton Gill Location within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 60 |
| OS grid reference | SD880764 |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SKIPTON |
| Postcode district | BD23 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
The name of the hamlet was recorded in 1457 as Haltonghyll. The name derives from a combination of Old English and Old Norse and means the nook of land (or ravine) with a small valley by a farmstead and a stream.[2][3]
The civil parish includes the hamlets of Foxup and Hesleden. To the south the parish rises to the summits of Plover Hill and Pen-y-Ghent. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 60 in 2012.[4]
From Halton Gill there is a bridleway over the Horse Head Pass to the north east to Yockenthwaite in Langstrothdale. This path was used by the priest from Hubberholme to reach the small chapel in Halton Gill.[2] To the west paths lead to the summit of Pen-y-ghent via Plover Hill.[5]
The 2010 Sainsbury's Christmas advert with celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, was filmed in Halton Gill.[6] Also filmed in the same year, but not released until 2012, was the film The Woman in Black, which used Halton Gill for filming as the fictional village of Crythin Gifford.[7][8]
Halton Gill was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[9] Halton Gill became a separate civil parish in 1866.[10] St John the Baptist's Church, Halton Gill was built in the Mediaeval period, while the current building dates from 1636. The adjacent school closed in 1958, and the church in the late 1970s, following which both were converted into a house.[11][12]
The parish was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.
See also
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edit- ^ "98" (Map). Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319263419.
- ^ a b Chrystal, Paul (2017). The Place Names of Yorkshire. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 40. ISBN 9781840337532.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 213. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2012. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ "Halton Gill". www.yorkshireguides.com. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Jamie cooks up an early Christmas for villagers". Craven Herald. 13 November 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "The Woman in Black returns to life once again to haunt cinema screens". The Yorkshire Post. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Star role for Dales in Daniel Radcliffe's new film Woman in Black". Craven Herald. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales". 1870. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Vision of Britain website
- ^ Boyd, William; Shuffrey, William Arthur (1893). Littondale: Past and Present. Richard Jackson.
- ^ Historic England, "Schoolhouse and Church of St. John the Baptist, now house, Halton Gill (1132182)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 November 2024
External links
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Media related to Halton Gill at Wikimedia Commons