Hackness is a village and

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in the Scarborough district of the county of

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, England. It lies within the

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. The parish population rose from 125 in the

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to 221 in the

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Heritage

Hackness is mentioned as the site of a

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Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...

, writing in the early 8th century. The present Church of Saint Peter is a Grade I

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, parts of which date from the 11th century. The church also possesses fragments of a

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dating from the late 8th or early 9th century. These preserve parts of a

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prayer for Saint Æthelburh and an illegible inscription, apparently in the

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Hackness Hall and its landscape gardens were created in the 1790s. The house, a Grade I listed building, was commissioned by Sir Richard Van den Bempde-Johnstone, who had inherited the estate through his mother. A new entrance was added in 1810. Fire damage in 1910 was restored under the direction of Walter Brierley.

Governance

Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council covers a total of the six parishes: Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Darncombe-cum-Langdale End, Hackness, Harwood Dale, Silpho and Suffield-cum-Everley.

Sports

There is a tennis club in the village with three grass courts and two hard courts, on the road to Lowdales and Highdales. The club was able to celebrate 90 years of tennis in Hackness in 2013.

Notable people

In birth order: *

Hilda of Whitby Hilda (or Hild) of Whitby (c. 614 – 680) was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon ...

(c. 614–680), saint, died in Hackness. *

Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby (1566 – 30 December 1640), also spelt Hobie, Hobbie and Hobby, Posthumous and Postumus, was an English gentleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1629. A Puritan, he has ...

(1566–1640) was

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and a possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio in ''

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''. * Margaret, Lady Hoby (1571–1633) kept the earliest known female diary in English (1599–1605). *

Matthew Noble Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen displayed in locations such as Westminster Ab ...

(1818–1876), sculptor, made the bust of William Smith (geologist), who was employed at Hackness Hall.Geological Society site
/ref> * Arthur Irvin (1848–1945), cricketer and clergyman

References

External links

Hackness & Harwood Dale Group Parish Council website
{{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire Borough of Scarborough