Dunkeswick

Dunkeswick is a hamlet in Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, just north of the River Wharfe, off the A61, around a kilometre north of Harewood and two kilometres south of Kirkby Overblow.

Dunkeswick
OS grid referenceSE3046
Civil parish
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

Etymology

The name of Dunkeswick comes from the Old English words cēse ('cheese') and wīc ('dwelling, specialised farm'), and thus once meant 'farm specialising in cheese production'. The fact that keswick begins with [k-] rather than the [tʃ] sound of cheese, however, reflects the influence of Old Norse pronunciation on the local language. The additional element Dun seems to have been added to distinguish the settlement from other places called Keswick, such as the nearby East Keswick.[1]: 42 

History

The war memorial from Dunkeswick Methodist Chapel was housed in Harewood Methodist Chapel after the closure of Dunkeswick chapel.[2][3] Harewood Methodist Chapel has since closed.

Dunkewsick Moor is noted as the site of the Knight Air Flight 816 crash in 1995. On 24 May 1995, this scheduled flight from Leeds Bradford Airport to Aberdeen crashed shortly after take off, with the loss of all 12 passengers and crew on board.[4]

References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dunkeswick, North Yorkshire.
  1. Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017).
  2. Wharfedale Family History Group, Dunkeswick Methodist Chapel, accessed 11 April 2020
  3. Airedale and Wharfedale Family History Society, Dunkeswick Methodist Chapel, accessed 10 March 2022
  4. "The tragic air disaster which shook a rural Yorkshire community". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 5 November 2022.


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