Green Hammerton is a village and

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in the county of

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, England. It is situated on the

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, west of

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and east of Harrogate. Along with nearby

Kirk Hammerton Kirk Hammerton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Nidd and the A59 road, west of York. The village suffix refers to the ''Hamerton'' family who owned the land until the 16th centu ...

, the village is served by railway station on the Harrogate line. ''(H)ambretone'', a place-name reflected now both in Kirk Hammerton ('Hammerton with the church', from Old Norse ''kirkja'' 'church') and in Green Hammerton ('Hammerton with the green', from Middle English ''grene''), is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name seems to derive from the Old English plant-name ''hamor'' (whose meaning is not certain but might include hammer-sedge or pellitory of the wall) + ''tūn'' 'settlement, farm, estate'. The village has a Church of England parish church, St Thomas' Church, Green Hammerton (see 'External Links' below for a survey of burials in the churchyard) and a church primary school, both located in the centre of the village. The former Congregational church in Green Hammerton, originally built as a Methodist Chapel in the late 1790s, was adapted for use as a Roman Catholic Church, St Josephs, in 1961. The village pub is the Bay Horse Inn. Green Hammerton Village Hall opened in April 2010: it is run by the Green Hammerton Recreational Charity. Until 1974 it was part of the

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. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the

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, it is now administered by the unitary

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Notable people

John Hughlings Jackson John Hughlings Jackson (4 April 1835 – 7 October 1911) was an English neurologist. He is best known for his research on epilepsy. Biography He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest son of Sa ...

(1835–1911),

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References

External links

Official Green Hammerton village websiteSurvey of the Churchyard Burial Ground
Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{NorthYorkshire-geo-stub

Notable people

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