Burnsall

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Burnsall
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Village of Burnsall, from east above, showing bridge, Wharfe, chapel, Dalesway path (2008)
Burnsall is located in North Yorkshire
Burnsall
Burnsall
 Burnsall shown within North Yorkshire
Population 148 (2011)
OS grid reference SE031615
   – London 190 mi (310 km)  SSE
Civil parish Burnsall
District Craven
Shire county North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SKIPTON
Postcode district BD23
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament Skipton and Ripon
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Burnsall is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, and is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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The Old Grammar School, founded by William Craven

The village is approximately Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). south-east from Grassington. It has a parish church, a chapel, two hotels with restaurants, a public house, and a primary school. The school, Grade II listed, is in the original 1602 grammar school building, a legacy of William Craven of nearby Appletreewick.[1] There is a five-arched bridge over which the Dalesway passes. A path along the river from Burnsall to Hebden, Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). to the north-west, dates to Viking times.[citation needed]

The historic parish of Burnsall occupied a large part of upper Wharfedale. It included the townships of Appletreewick, Bordley, Conistone with Kilnsey, Cracoe, Hartlington, Hetton, Rylstone and Thorpe, all of which became separate civil parishes in 1866.[2] The parish was in Staincliffe Wapentake and in the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when it was transferred to North Yorkshire. The 2001 Census gave Burnsall parish a population of 112 increasing to 148 at the 2011 census.[3]

The ecclesiastical parish of Burnsall is in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales.[4] The parish church of St Wilfrid's, a Grade I listed building, is almost entirely Perpendicular. It contains an 11th-century font carved with bird and beasts, twelve Anglo-Saxon sculpture fragments and a 14th-century alabaster panel depicting the Adoration of the Magi. The church-yard is entered from the main road by a lychgate.

Burnsall is a centre for walking, trout fishing, picnics, and weddings. An annual feast day games in August includes amateur competitions, tug of war and fell races. The village cricket pitch is below Burnsall Fell and is half enclosed by the river.

References

  1. "Burnsall Grammar School", Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Retrieved 5 April 2015
  2. "Burnsall CP/AP", A Vision of Britain through time
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  4. "Burnsall: St Wilfrid, Burnsall", The Church of England. Retrieved 5 April 2015

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