Wilsill is a village in Nidderdale in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 2 miles (3 km) east of Pateley Bridge on the B6165 road between Pateley Bridge and Ripley.[1] In 2016, Harrogate Borough Council estimated the population as being 176.[2]
| Wilsill | |
|---|---|
 Wilsill's Methodist Church | |
.svg)  Wilsill Location within North Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE183645 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HARROGATE |
| Postcode district | HG3 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
The village appears in the Domesday Book as Wifelshale, where it was listed as having 18 villagers, 40 ploughlands and belonging to the Archbishop of York.[3] The name of the village derives from a personal name (Wifel) and the Old English Halh, which means corner of land.[4]
The village has a Methodist chapel, an Anglican church (St Michael and All Angels)[5] and a public house (The Birch Tree Inn).[6] The village is served by an eight times daily bus service between Pateley Bridge and Harrogate. Although the railway between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge went through the southern part of the villages' location, it was not furnished with a railway station.[7]
References
edit- ^ "298" (Map). Nidderdale. 1:25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. ISBN 9780319245507.
- ^ "Rural Rate Relief" (PDF). harrogate.gov.uk. 2016. p. 5. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Wilsill | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 521. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ "St Michael & All Angels - A Church Near You". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (29 November 2012). "Pub review: The Birch Tree, Wilsill, Nr Harrogate". The Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "No. 20666". The London Gazette. 16 November 1846. p. 4593.
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