Hawkswick

Hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Human settlement in England

Unitary authority

Region

54°07′51″N 2°04′15″W / 54.130920°N 2.070910°W / 54.130920; -2.070910

Hawkswick is a hamlet and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Situated in the Yorkshire Dales, it lies in Littondale on the River Skirfare.

The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2012.^[1] There is a caravan park adjacent to the hamlet, south of the River Skirfare.^[2]

Hawkswick was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.^[3] Hawkswick became a separate civil parish in 1866.^[4] The parish was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.

References

^ "Population Estimates". North Yorkshire County Council. 2012. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ "Littondale Country & Leisure Park". Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales". 1870. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
^ Vision of Britain website