Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
Human settlement in England
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.
The Old Grammar School, founded by William Craven
The village is approximately 2 miles (3 km) south-east from Grassington . It has a parish church, a chapel, two hotels with restaurants, a public house , and a primary school. Burnsall Primary School , a Grade II listed building , is in the original 1602 grammar school building, a legacy of William Craven of nearby Appletreewick .[ 2] There is a five-arched bridge over which the Dalesway passes. A path along the river from Burnsall to Hebden , 1 mile (2 km) to the north-west, dates to Viking times.[ 3]
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.[ 4] 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, decreasing to 110 at the 2011 census.[ 5]
The ecclesiastical parish of Burnsall is in the Diocese of Leeds .[ 6] St Wilfrid's Church, Burnsall , 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 .[ 7] The church-yard is entered from the main road by a lychgate .
Burnsall is a centre for walking,[ 8] trout fishing, picnics, and weddings. An annual feast day games in August includes amateur competitions, tug of war and fell races .[ 9] The village cricket pitch is below Burnsall Fell and is half enclosed by the river.
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