Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARDROW, or HARDRAW

HARDROW, or HARDRAW, a hamlet and a chapelry in High Abbotside township, Aysgarth parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies on an affluent of the river Ure, 1½ mile N by W of Hawes, and 16½ W of Leyburn r. station. The chapelry includes also the hamlets of Cotterdale, Fossdale, Sedbusk, Shaw, and Simonstone; and, together with the chapelry of Lunds, had, in 1861, a pop. of 552. Post-town, Hawes, under Bedale. The property is divided among a few. Most of the surface is mountainous; and much of it is picturesque. The stream on which Hardrow hamlet lies rises on Great Shunnerfell, and runs 4 miles southward to the Ure, between the hamlet and Hawes; and a remarkable waterfall, called Hardrow force, occurs on it near its mouth. The waterfall occurs in a natural amphitheatre, with vertical sides, fully 100 feet high; it makes a clear leap of 99 feet; and, during a frost in 1739-40, it congealed into a cylinder of ice, most of it standing firm as a solid transparent column, while the rest passed through the hollow of the column as through a pipe. The living is a p. curacy, united with the p. curacy of Lunds, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £192. * Patron, alternately Lord Wharncliffe and the Vicar of Aysgarth. The church is good. The parsonage was built in 1864. A school has £15 a year from Lord Wharncliffe.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Aysgarth CP/AP       North Riding Riding       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: HARDRAW     |     HARDROW     |     HARDROW OR HARDRAW
Place: Hardraw

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