Henderskelfe

Originally, the area had been called Hinderskelfe, and the manor lands of Hinderskelfe stretched between Stamford Bridge, what is now Castle Howard and Lastingham.{{cite news |title=A majestic gem rises from the ruins |url=https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/countrywalks/4347491.a-majestic-gem-rises-from-the-ruins/ |access-date=27 September 2022 |work=Gazette & Herald |date=6 May 2009}} Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the area was home to a village and a church, both now lost, with Castle Howard being built on top of the village, and Henderskelfe/Hinderskelfe Castle.{{cite web |title=Henderskelfe {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7170/henderskelfe/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=27 September 2022}} As the church had been destroyed, no clergy were assigned to the area, and it became known as an extra-parochial area.{{cite web |title=Genuki: Extraparochial, Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Extraparochial |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=27 September 2022}} The site of the rectory and the church now lie underneath the South Lake, and the garden respectively on the Castle Howard estate. In 1846, a private bill was passed in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which effectively swapped the two parcels of land in Henderskelfe, with land in Sheriff Hutton; the Archbishop of York owned the parcel of land beneath the lake, and no longer needed it.{{sfn|Beresford|1952|pp=284–285}} The township of Henderskelfe remained in the ecclesiastical parish of Bulmer for marriages births and baptisms after it had been created as a civil parish.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Ellen |title=The parish register of Bulmer, 1571-1837 |date=1995 |publisher=Privately printed for the Parish Register Section |location=Leeds |isbn=0902122703 |page=xi}}

Henderskelfe Castle was built during the reign of Edward III to a quadrangular design, though it was listed as being in ruins by 1359.{{cite web |title=Henderskelfe Castle |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=59915&resourceID=19191 |website=www.heritagegateway.org.uk |access-date=30 September 2022}}

File:16th century house, Henderskelfe (rubble foundation).png

Leland states in Collectanea, that in 1070, a Scottish raiding party under King Malcolm, "...came to a place called Hinderskelfe and slew some English nobility."{{cite book|title=History and Topography of the City of York, and the North Riding of Yorkshire: embracing a general review of the early history of Great Britain, and a general history and description of the County of York, Volume 2 |last=Whellan|first=T.|publisher=John Green|location=Beverley|year=1859|oclc=74378767|page=581}} At the time of the Domesday survey, the land belonged to Berengar of Tosny, who died without issue and so it passed to his sister, Adeliza, who married Roger Bigod. Henderskelfe passed to the monarchy in 1306, when Bigod died, and all his honours were transferred to the crown.{{cite journal |last1=Scurfield |first1=C |title=A Proposed Caravan Club Site At Park Farm, The Castle Howard Estate, North Yorkshire: An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment |journal=CS Archaeology Series |date=2011 |page=15 |doi=10.5284/1017260}} The manor was owned by the Greystoke family in the 16th and 17th centuries.{{cite ODNB|first=Keith|last=Dockray|title=Greystoke family|id=54524|date=23 September 2004}} Henderskelfe Castle and village were rebuilt in 1683, but destroyed by fire in 1693. The building of Castle Howard started {{circa|1699}}, and some of the external walls by the gate were built from stone sourced from the ruined castle.{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus, Sir |title=Yorkshire, the North Riding |date=2002 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300096658 |page=107}}{{sfn|Levine|2009|p=337}} Henderskelfe Castle and village were both located immediately west of Ray Wood, which still exists today. A map of 1694, drawn a year after fire destroyed the castle, shows the layout of the village and castle.{{sfn|Levine|2009|p=331}}

The name of Henderskelfe has been suggested by Smith to be an Old Norse combination of Hildar and skjálf; a female personal name and either shelf or seat.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A. H. |title=The Place Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire |date=1979|orig-date=1928|oclc= 19714705|publisher=English Place Name Society|page=40}} However, Morris suggests the name stems from Hundred-Hill, as the site was the meeting place of the wapentakes of Ryedale and Bulmer.{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Frances Orpen |title=The county seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1881 |publisher=Longman Green & Co |location=London |page=11}} The remains of the village of Hinderskelfe/Henderskelfe were demolished when the current Castle Howard buildings were erected in 1699. A map of 1690 shows 24 houses present, though no document records what happened to the villagers. Beresford suggested that the villagers were given houses in either Coneysthorpe or Welburn.{{sfn|Beresford|1952|p=286}} The area was classified as a township until 1866, when it was redesignated as a civil parish. Previous to this, the township of Henderskelfe was in the parish of Bulmer, and consisted of {{convert|1,500|acre}}, most of which was given over to the Castle Howard estate.{{sfn|Page|1968|p=107}} By 1872, the parish area was defined as being {{convert|1,620|acre}}, which had grown to {{convert|1,705|acre}} by 1890.{{sfn|Bulmer|1890|p=656}}

In 1987, the whole of the parish became part of the newly created Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.{{cite book |title=The Howardian hills, proposed area of outstanding natural beauty: Statement of intent by the local planning authorities |date=1984 |publisher=Ryedale District Council |location=North Yorkshire |page=15|oclc=59345684}} The Centenary Way long-distance footpath crosses the eastern side of the parish.{{cite news |last1=Rushby |first1=Kevin |title=Unsung Britain: Walking North Yorkshire's Howardian Hills |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/mar/01/walking-in-yorkshire-howardian-hills |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=1 March 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Somerville |first1=Christopher |title=A good walk: Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/wildlife-nature/article/a-good-walk-howardian-hills-north-yorkshire-wmfhzc2dr |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=The Times |date=5 January 2019|url-access=subscription}}

Henderskelfe was historically in the wapentake of Bulmer, and part of the Malton Rural District in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council.{{cite book |title=North Yorkshire gazetteer of townships and parishes |orig-date=1986|date=1991 |publisher=North Yorkshire County Council |location=Northallerton |isbn=0-906035-29-5 |page=16}} The parish forms part of the Thirsk and Malton Constituency for national government purposes.{{cite web |title=Election Maps - Henderskelfe |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=471676&y=469664&z=7&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=WMC&labels=on |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=28 September 2022}}

In the 2001 census, the parish details were listed as being "below the Office for National Statistics threshold data" (the population was less than 100), so the details were contained within the adjacent parish of Coneysthorpe.{{cite web |title=2011 Census Profiles for Ryedale Civil Parishes |url=https://hub.datanorthyorkshire.org/dataset/d5dcd69d-5776-4b70-8523-1bcfb6f72a6c/resource/c95207c2-a8dd-4772-bb95-bc9166ed27e7/download/ryedale-parishes-2011-census-profiles.pdf |website=datanorthyorkshire.org |access-date=27 September 2022}}

• Sir Humphrey Lascelles died in Henderskelfe in 1102.
• William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre, lived at Henderskelf[sic], after having to surrender his other estates.{{cite ODNB|first=Steven G.|last=Ellis|title=Dacre, William, third Baron Dacre of Gilsland and seventh Baron Greystoke|id=46514|date=23 September 2004}} He had "embraced Catholicism", and so during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, he was persecuted for his beliefs, and briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London.{{sfn|Bulmer|1890|p=657}}

• Listed buildings in Henderskelfe

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• {{cite journal|last=Beresford|first=M. W.|title=The Lost Villages of Yorkshire IV|date=1952|volume=38|pages=284–285|publisher=Yorkshire Archaeological Society|location=Leeds|journal=Yorkshire Archaeological Journal|issn=0084-4276}}
• {{cite book |last1=Levine |first1=Neil |title=Modern architecture : representation & reality |date=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300145670 |chapter=1: Castle Howard and the Subject Matter of History}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=William |title=The Victoria history of the county of York, North Riding volume two |date=1968 |publisher=Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research |location=London |isbn=0712903100}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Bulmer |editor1-first=T. |title=History, topography, and directory of North Yorkshire : comprising its ancient and modern history |date=1890 |publisher=Bulmer & Co |location=Preston|oclc=650384999}}

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• [https://www.ryedale.gov.uk/content/uploads/2021/06/Henderskelfe.pdf Parish boundary map]

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