Newby Head

This article is about the place in North Yorkshire. For the place in Cumbria, see Newby Head, Cumbria.

Newby Head
The B6255 at Newby Head Moss
Elevation1,439 ft (439 m)
Coordinates54°15′05″N 2°19′00″W / 54.2514°N 2.3168°W / 54.2514; -2.3168
Newby Head is located in North Yorkshire
Newby Head
Location within North Yorkshire

Newby Head, Newby Head Farm or Newby Head Inn is part of the Beresford Estate and was a popular drovers' inn in North Yorkshire, England. Now a farmhouse, it stands at the top of Newby Head Pass on the B6255 road between Ingleton and Hawes. Newby Head is around 1,439 feet (439 m) above sea level.

Drover's Inn

The name of the area derives from a combination of Old English (niwe) and Old Norse (by), meaning the new building.[1] The land around the head was historically owned by Furness Abbey, and the buildings at Newby Head were a drovers' inn until 1919.[2][3] There was plenty of custom from the drovers bringing sheep and cattle to and from Scotland. The land around Newby Head is mostly glacial till over limestone and has one of the sources of the River Ribble bubbling out of it.[4] Newby Head Inn was an alternative to the renowned drovers inn and weekly market at Gearstones selling meat, flour, animals and vegetables just 2 miles (3 km) down the road.[5]

Winters are very harsh in the Yorkshire Dales. In the past winters the RAF was drafted in to drop hay and food supplies for the farmers and animals. There are also signs of now-abandoned settlements around Newby Head.

The inn at Newby Head was a drovers' inn and roadside inn for travellers on the Richmond to Lancaster Turnpike road.[6] There drovers, packmen and other travellers called in for a drink and to stay the night.[7] The lodgings were basic and not only were rooms shared, but beds were shared as well as was often the custom of the past centuries. In January 1843, an inquest was held at Newby Head Inn by the Skipton coroner Thomas Brown. Isaac Mason, a carpenter who had stayed at the inn on his way back to Dent from Hawes, had been found dead in bed. According to the person with whom he had shared the bed, Mason had become ill overnight and the second man went downstairs to get a candle for light. When he returned he found Isaac Mason dead. The verdict was death by the 'visitation of God'.[8]

The inn stood at 1,425 feet (434 m) above sea level; the second highest in England at the time (after Tan Hill Inn, which is still open).[9] Thomas Guy was innkeeper in 1821. Edmund Thistlethwaite was landlord in 1841 and by 1851 John Swinbank had taken over. In 1905 the landlord changed from Christopher Swinback to Simeon Parker. The Swinbanks had been at Newby Head at least since 1851 when John Swinbank was 'victualler and farmer' with 170 acres (69 ha) of land. It was one of the outlying inns which the magistrates were keen to close around the turn of the century mainly because it was too far out from the towns to supervise and they saw no real need for it. It was always a farm and after its closure as an inn in 1919 it returned to full-time farming.

Newby Head Pass

Newby Head Pass is an upland pass situated on the top section of the B6255 between Hawes and Ingleton, North Yorkshire in England. Newby Head Pass was named after the Drovers Inn at Newby Head at the top of the Pass. Newby Head Pass stands at an altitude of 1,439 feet (439 m) above sea level and was formerly the border between the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.[10] After it was moved into North Yorkshire in 1974, it formed the border between the districts of Craven and Richmondshire.[11][12][13][14]

Newby Head Farm

References

  1. ^ Metcalfe, Peter (1992). Place-names of the Yorkshire Dales: origins and meanings. Harrogate: North Yorkshire Marketing. pp. 60–61. ISBN 1-873214-03-0.
  2. ^ Mitchell, W. R. (1992). Three Peaks and Malhamdale. Otley: Smith Settle. p. 9. ISBN 1870071859.
  3. ^ Hartley, Marie (1991). The Yorkshire Dales. Otley: Smith Settle. p. 108. ISBN 1870071727.
  4. ^ Waltham, Tony (2007). The Yorkshire Dales: landscape and geology. Ramsbury: Crowood. p. 214. ISBN 1861269722.
  5. ^ Palmer, William T. (1951). Wanderings in Ribblesdale. London: Skeffington and Son. p. 14. OCLC 12969110.
  6. ^ Wright, Geoffrey Norman (1985). Roads and trackways of the Yorkshire Dales. Ashbourne: Moorland. p. 147. ISBN 0861901231.
  7. ^ Mitchell, W. R. (1999). The story of the Yorkshire Dales. Chichester: Phillimore. p. 66. ISBN 1860770886.
  8. ^ "Awfully sudden death". Lancaster Gazetter. No. 2127. 21 January 1843. p. 3. OCLC 1325804678.
  9. ^ Palmer, William T. (1951). Wanderings in Ribblesdale. London: Skeffington and Son. p. 17. OCLC 12969110.
  10. ^ "Over the hills and far away; trip through Upper Wharfedale". Todmorden News and Advertiser. No. 5628. 11 April 1968. p. 5. OCLC 1061987492.
  11. ^ Phillips, John (1853). The rivers, mountains, and sea-coast of Yorkshire: with essays on the climate, scenery, and ancient inhabitants of the county. John Murray. p. 269. Retrieved 4 March 2010. Newby Head Pass.
  12. ^ Mountford John B. Baddeley (1897). Yorkshire (3rd ed.). p. 78. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
  13. ^ John Phillips (October 2009). The Rivers, Mountains and Seacoast of Yorkshire with Essays on the Climate ... ISBN 978-1-115-40077-0. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
  14. ^ "Election Maps - Newby Head". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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