Hunsingore

Hunsingore translates as "ofer or ridge of Hunsinge’s people". In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village is listed as Hulsingovre. The Goodricke family owned lots of land in the area and they lived in New House in Hunsingore rather than Ribston Hall. New House was believed to have been destroyed by Cromwell after the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.{{cite web|title=Hunsingore Conservation Character Appraisal |url=http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/plan/Documents/Heritage%20and%20Design/Conservation%20Areas/DS-P-CAA_Hunsingore_210911.pdf |publisher=Harrogate Borough Council |accessdate=13 November 2015 |page=4 |date=21 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023125/http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/plan/Documents/Heritage%20and%20Design/Conservation%20Areas/DS-P-CAA_Hunsingore_210911.pdf |archivedate=17 November 2015 }}

Originally Hunsingore was in the Claro Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire.{{cite web|title=Hungerton to Huntingdon|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp583-588|website=British History Online|publisher=BHO|accessdate=12 November 2015}} Since the county boundary shake up of 1974, it has been in North Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The Old Corn Mill, a former water-powered corn mill, is on the River Nidd by the weir. The weir is still on the river, but the mill has been converted into housing.{{cite web|title=Domesday Reloaded - River Nidd|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-453000/page/10|website=BBC|accessdate=12 November 2015|date=1986}}{{cite web|title=The Corn Mill on North Bank of the River Nidd, Hunsingore|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-330642-the-corn-mill-on-north-bank-of-the-river#.VkUjLVUnzmI|website=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=12 November 2015|ref=330642}}

There used to be a primary school in the village, but it was closed down due to low numbers. Children from Cowthorpe used to come across from the south bank of the Nidd via a footbridge to attend school here.{{cite web|title=Hunsingore School 2011|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-453000/page/21|website=Domesday Reloaded|publisher=BBC|accessdate=12 November 2015}}

St John the Baptist's Church, Hunsingore, was designed in 1868 in a High Victorian Gothic style, including an unusual and fanciful covered entrance to the churchyard. The architect was Charles Kirk of Sleaford.Pevsner,N and Radcliffe, E., The Buildings of England: Yorkshire West Riding, Penguin Books 1967 p.276 The church is now in the Lower Nidderdale Parish.{{cite web|title=Hunsingore St John|url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hunsingore-st-john-baptist/|website=A Church Near You|accessdate=13 November 2015}}

The nearest railway station is Cattal which is {{convert|2.5|mi|km|abbr=on|0}} by road. The bus service through the village runs twice daily and is a Demand Responsive Service (IE must be booked in advance) to Wetherby.{{cite web|title=Demand Responsive Service|url=http://www.northyorkstravel.info/timetable/DR01_may15.pdf|website=North Yorks Travel Info|publisher=NYCC|accessdate=12 November 2015|ref=DR01|date=22 April 2014}}

The village is bounded to the west by the A1(M), but access must be gained by going on the A168 to the next junction in either direction. The A59 passes just north of Cattal and gives access to York and Harrogate.

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• John Goodricke (astronomer) – buried here
• Kathleen Gough (anthropologist) – born here

• Listed buildings in Hunsingore

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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire

Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire