Green Hammerton

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|54|00|20|N|1|18|03|W|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Green Hammerton

| static_image = Green Hammerton (26th April 2013) 001.JPG

| static_image_caption = Green Hammerton

| population = 675

| population_ref = (2011 census){{NOMIS2011|id=E04007353|title=Green Hammerton Parish |accessdate=5 March 2019}}

| civil_parish = Green Hammerton

| unitary_england = North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster =

| post_town = YORK

| postcode_district = YO26

| postcode_area = YO

| dial_code =

| os_grid_reference = SE459568

}}

Green Hammerton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A59 road, {{convert|8|mi}} west of York and {{convert|10|mi}} east of Harrogate. Along with nearby Kirk Hammerton, the village is served by {{rws|Hammerton}} railway station on the Harrogate line.{{cite news |last1=Burn |first1=Chris |title=Villagers and council divided by plan for new town between Harrogate and York |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/latest-news/villagers-and-council-divided-by-plan-for-new-town-between-harrogate-and-york-1-8800415 |accessdate=17 December 2019 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=12 October 2017 |language=en|url-access=limited}}

(H)ambretone, a place-name reflected now both in Kirk Hammerton ('Hammerton with the church', from Old Norse kirkja 'church') and in Green Hammerton ('Hammerton with the green', from Middle English grene), is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086.{{cite web |title=[Green] Hammerton {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4557/green-hammerton/ |website=opendomesday.org |accessdate=17 December 2019}} The name seems to derive from the Old English plant-name hamor (whose meaning is not certain but might include hammer-sedge or pellitory of the wall) + tūn 'settlement, farm, estate'.{{cite book|editor-last=Watts|editor-first=Victor|title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge |chapter=Kirk HAMMERTON}}

The village has a Church of England parish church, St Thomas' Church, Green Hammerton (see 'External Links' below for a survey of burials in the churchyard) and a church primary school, both located in the centre of the village.{{cite web |url=http://www.green-hammerton.ik.org/ |title= Green Hammerton CE Primary School|accessdate=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131042227/http://www.green-hammerton.ik.org/ |archivedate=31 January 2016 }} The former Congregational church in Green Hammerton, originally built as a Methodist Chapel in the late 1790s, was adapted for use as a Roman Catholic Church, St Josephs, in 1961.{{cite web |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/york/ourladyschurch/page7.phtml |title=St Joseph's Church, Green Hammerton |accessdate=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129042538/http://www.communigate.co.uk/york/ourladyschurch/page7.phtml |archivedate=29 November 2012 |work=The Press|location=York}}

The village pub is the Bay Horse Inn.{{cite web |url=http://www.bayhorsegreenhammerton.co.uk/index.htm |title=The Bay Horse Inn, Green Hammerton |accessdate=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214044936/http://www.bayhorsegreenhammerton.co.uk/index.htm |archivedate=14 February 2013 }} Green Hammerton Village Hall opened in April 2010: it is run by the Green Hammerton Recreational Charity.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenhammertonhall.co.uk/|title=Green Hammerton Village Hall|accessdate=17 February 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831001313/http://www.greenhammertonhall.co.uk/|archivedate=31 August 2012}}

Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.{{Cite web |title=History of Green Hammerton, in Harrogate and West Riding |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12818 |access-date=15 April 2025 |website=A Vision of Britain}} From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.