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Harewood in York County England History and GeographyHAREWOOD, a parish comprising the townships of Dunkeswith and Weeton, in the upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, the township of East Keswick, in the lower division, and the townships of Alwoodley, Harewood, Weardley, Wigton, and Wike, in the upper division of the wapentake of SKYRACK, West riding of the county of YORK, and containing 2348 inhabitants, of which number, 849 are in the township of Harewood, 6½ miles (W.S.W.) from Wetherby. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £14. 1. 10., endowed with £37 per annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Parishioners and Mr. Wheeler alternately. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was erected in the reign of Edward III., upon the site of an edifice supposed to have been built soon after the Conquest: it contains stately monuments to the memory of several of the ancient possessors of Harewood, and one to the memory of the celebrated Sir William Gascoigne, Knt., Lord Chief Justice in the reign of Henry IV., the upright judge, who, for an insult offered to the dignity of the bench, committed the Prince of Wales (afterwards Henry V.) to prison. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is thought to contain coal, though none is obtained. A charter for a market on Monday was granted to Lord Strafford about 1633, also a fortnight fair in Summer and two other fairs; the latter only are continued, and are held on the last Monday in April, and the second Monday in October. On the acclivity of a hill, at the foot of which winds the river Warf, are the noble ruins of a castle, supposed to have been built about the time of the erection of the original church, by one of the Romellis: it afterwards came into the family of Lascelles, and was neglected as a residence by Edwin Lascelles, Esq., who, before he was raised to the peerage in 1790, fixed upon a spot on the opposite side of the hill, and there built the present splendid seat of the family, at an expense stated to exceed £100,000. Harewood gives the titles of baron and earl to the family of Lascelles. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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