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Village in England
Church Houses
Village
Feversham Arms Inn at Church Houses
Church Houses is located in North YorkshireChurch HousesChurch HousesLocation within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE669975
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Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townYORK
Postcode districtYO62
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
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AmbulanceYorkshire
List of places
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England
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54°22′05″N 0°58′12″W / 54.368°N 0.970°W / 54.368; -0.970

Church Houses is a hamlet in Farndale, North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is just to the east of the River Dove in upper Farndale, and is about 150 metres (490 ft) above sea level. The nearest town, Kirkbymoorside, is 8 miles (13 km) away to the south, and Castleton is also 8 miles (13 km) to the north. It is one of three hamlets in the Farndale valley, though it is sometimes referred to as a village (it has a village hall), and on account of the church just to the east, although the hamlet only consists of seven buildings. The hamlet is within the North York Moors national park area.

History

Farndale was arable and pasture land during the late Middle Ages; monks from Rievaulx held the rights to keep cattle in the valley. Church Houses is one of three hamlets in the valley (the other two being Lowna and Low Mill), but there is no settlement named Farndale. Church Houses lies to the east of the River Dove in Upper Farndale at a height of 150 metres (490 ft) above sea level, and the roads through the hamlet serve as a central point with lanes radiating out of the valley in four directions.

The hamlet is best known for being the starting/finishing point of the daffodil walks that people undertake in the valley in late March/early April. Farndale is renowned for its daffodils which grow in the valley in their thousands. The hamlet has a pub, the Feversham Arms which dates back to the 19th century, and whilst the low number of dwellings in Church Houses provided little custom, the pub is popular will hill-farmers and visitors from the surrounding areas. The pub used to be the recreational meeting point of the Farndale Hunt, one of the oldest established hunts in England (pre-dating 1835), but which disbanded in 2015.

An old school house has now been converted into a private dwelling, and just east of the hamlet, is the Church of St Mary, which is grade II listed. The parish of Farndale East Side used to have a chapel of ease, a daughter church of the parish church in Lastingham, but St Mary's Church was built in 1831, and extended between 1907 and 1914. The village hall was re-built in 2019 and is considered eco-friendly, and the annual Farndale Show is held at the showfield in Church Houses; the show in 2024 was the 115th show. The showfield also doubles as the pitch for High Farndale Cricket Club, who play in the Feversham League alongside five other teams. The Feversham League is considered to be one of the smallest cricket leagues in Yorkshire. The flat pitch is in a field which has a 1-in-6 drop, and has been described as the "..only flat 22 yards in the dale.."

The hamlet is within the civil parish of Farndale East Side, and is represented at Westminster as part of the Thirsk and Malton Constituency. Population statistics are included within the civil parish of Farndale West. A public bus service runs in spring in conjunction with the blooming of daffodils in the valley, otherwise, the nearest Moorsbus service runs to the east of the hamlet past the Lion Inn and Blakey Ridge.

A pre-Second World War plan to flood Farndale to provide a reservoir was resurrected in the 1960s and 1970s. The Hull Corporation installed a weir over Hodge Beck in neighbouring Bransdale (which was also planned to be flooded) to measure flow rates. If it had been approved, the dam would have been able to provide 88,000,000 imperial gallons (400,000,000 L; 106,000,000 US gal) of water a day to Hull and Sheffield. The reservoir would have taken up the complete upper dale and would have seen a dam head 130 feet (40 m) high at the northern end of Church Houses. The plan was never carried out; at a further reading of the bill in 1970, the chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee enacted a protocol barring members who had previously voted for the scheme from voting again, and the bill was refused.

See also

References

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