Hardraw, North Riding

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hardraw like this:

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. ...

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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.

Hardraw through time

Hardraw is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hardraw itself, go to Statistics.

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