Warsill
{{Short description|Civil parish in North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|54.08|-1.65|type:adm3rd_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Warsill
| type =
| static_image_name = Warsill Hall Farm - geograph.org.uk - 118646.jpg
| static_image_caption = Warsill Hall Farm
| static_image_width = 300px
| static_image_2_name = Warsill UK parish locator map.svg
| static_image_2_width = 300px
| map_type = nomap
| population = 70
| population_ref = (2015)
| civil_parish = Warsill
| unitary_england = North Yorkshire
| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire
| region = Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster = Skipton and Ripon
| post_town = HARROGATE
| postcode_district = HG3
| postcode_area = HG
| dial_code =
| os_grid_reference = SE226651
}}
Warsill is a settlement and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few scattered farms {{convert|5|mi|0}} south west of Ripon. In 1961 the population of the parish was 42.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table_page.jsp?tab_id=EW1961COU_M3&u_id=10473172&show=DB Vision of Britain: Census Reports] The population was estimated at 70 in 2015.{{cite web|publisher=North Yorkshire County Council|title=Population Estimates|year=2015|url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0|accessdate=7 April 2017}} In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Hartwith cum Winsley and not counted separately.
Warsill was historically an extra parochial area. It became a civil parish in 1858.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10473172 Vision of Britain website] Today it shares a grouped parish council with Bishop Thornton.[http://bishopthornton.info/ Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill Parish Web Portal] From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The toponym, first recorded in 1132 as Warthsala, probably derives from the Old English weard sæl, meaning "watch castle".{{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=186}} In the Middle Ages there was a grange of Fountains Abbey here, later the home of Stephen Proctor.John Richard Walbran, Memorials of the abbey of St. Mary of Fountains, 1 (Durham, 1863), p. 357. Warsill Hall Farmhouse, a 17th-century Grade II listed building, now stands on its site.{{NHLE |num=1251860 |accessdate=7 April 2017}}
The Abbey Grange at Warsill included a dairy farm, providing milk and cheese to the Abbey, and there were also sheep, with wethers kept over winter. In 1526, Peter and Agnes Smyth, employed as the keepers of Warsill, had a plough for arable.David Michelmore, [https://archive.org/details/YASRS140/page/164/mode/2up Fountains Abbey Lease Book (Leeds, 1981), pp. lvi, lix, 165–168]