Felliscliffe

Felliscliffe was historically a township in the ancient parish of Hampsthwaite in the West Riding of Yorkshire,[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10430914#tab02 Vision of Britain: Hampsthwaite] first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Felgesclif,{{Cite web|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7311320|title=Catalogue description Place name: Felliscliffe, Yorkshire Folio: 300r Great Domesday Book Domesday...|date=2 November 1086|via=National Archive of the UK}} apparently from an Old Danish personal name Felagh.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=A. H.|authorlink=Albert Hugh Smith|title=The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire|volume=5|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1961|page=132}}

The township served Fountains Abbey with flax, with monastery paths leading along Tang Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, still in existence. Traces of Iron Age and Roman settlements have been discovered in the parish, indicating that it has been inhabited continuously for several millennia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/archi_new_search_engine.pl?search_location=SE+22+56&search_type=archi_town_search&pwd=freesearch@freesearch.com&TownName=Kettlesing&county=North+Yorkshire&search_range=10000&period=&font_size=&placename=Kettlesing&info2search4=archi_town_search&PlacenameFromPlacenameFinder=Kettlesing&CountyFromPlacenameFinder=North+Yorkshire|title=Archaeological Sites in Kettlesing, North Yorkshire, (SE 22 56) |website=www.archiuk.com}}

In 1866 Felliscliffe became a separate civil parish.{{cite vob|name=Felliscliffe Tn/CP | url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10424574#tab02 | accessdate=1 February 2022}} From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The parish is west of Harrogate. It includes part of the US intelligence-gathering base at RAF Menwith Hill. Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary School is in Kettlesing.{{cite web|url=http://www.felliscliffen-yorks.co.uk/contact.asp |title=Contact Details |publisher=Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary School |accessdate=16 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508171213/http://felliscliffen-yorks.co.uk/contact.asp |archivedate=8 May 2015 }}

The parish skyline, on the ridge to the south of the A59, is now dominated by the eight {{convert|58|m|order=flip}} wind turbine towers of the Knabs Ridge Wind Farm.{{cite web |title=Knabs Ridge Wind Farm |url=https://www.innogy.com/web/cms/mediablob/en/3167700/data/3167694/1/rwe-innogy/rwe-innogy-uk/sites/wind-onshore/united-kingdom/in-operation/summary/Click-here-to-read-the-Knabs-Ridge-Wind-Farm-fact-sheet.pdf |website=innogy.com |access-date=7 September 2018 |page=1}}{{cite news |last1=Gosden |first1=Emily |title=Innogy investigates cause of Yorkshire wind turbine blaze |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/09/innogy-investigates-cause-yorkshire-wind-turbine-blaze/ |access-date=7 September 2018 |work=The Telegraph |date=2017}}

John Farrah owned two farms at Felliscliffe before he died in 1907.{{cite journal |last1=Sheppard |first1=T. |editor1-last=Sheppard |editor1-first=T. |editor2-last=Woodhead |editor2-first=T.W. |title=In memoriam: John Farrah, F.R.S., F.R.Met.S (1849-1907) |journal=The Naturalist |date=December 1907 |volume=1907 |pages=407, 412–414 |url=https://archive.org/details/naturalist1907west/page/408/mode/2up |access-date=11 May 2021 |publisher=A. Brown & Sons |location=London}}

• Listed buildings in Felliscliffe

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Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire

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