Wensley, North Yorkshire
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Wensley is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few homes and holiday cottage, an inn, a pub and a historic church.[1] It is on the A684 road Script error: No such module "convert". south-west of the market town of Leyburn. The River Ure passes through the village.
The etymology of the name ultimately originates either from a compound of an Old English form of the god Woden (attested Wednesleg Template:C. 1212, earlier Wodnesleie, see Wednesday), and the Old English leah meaning wood or meadow.[2] Another possible route for the first part is the personal name Wændel.[3] Wensley gives its name to the dale Wensleydale.[4]
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
For a century after its charter in 1202, Wensley had the only market in the dale and this continued into the 16th century. Plague struck Wensley in 1563,[5] some surviving villagers fled to Leyburn, but the village recovered a century later when Charles Paulet built Bolton Hall in 1678 and became Duke of Bolton.[6] Bolton Hall, is now Script error: No such module "convert". from the heart of Wensley, near Preston-under-Scar, Richmondshire; it was rebuilt after a fire in 1902.[7]
Wensley's Holy Trinity Church dates to 1300 and is a Grade I listed building.[8] It is now redundant and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.[9] It was featured as the wedding venue of James and Helen Herriot in the 1978 BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, in the episode "The Last Furlong".[10][11]
Wensley's railway station is now closed. It was situated Script error: No such module "convert". to the north between Wensley and Preston-under-Scar, on the Wensleydale Railway line which still passes the village.
Leyburn Old Glebe nature reserve lies about Script error: No such module "convert". east of the village.
Ernie Gillatt, a footballer active in the 1920s, was born in Wensley.[12]
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- ↑ "Bolton Hall Destroyed", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 – 1931), 17 October 1902. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 February 2012
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