Felliscliffe is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, in Nidderdale, Borough of Harrogate. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 283. [1] The principal settlement in the parish is the village of Kettlesing, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Swincliffe.
Felliscliffe was historically a township in the ancient parish of Hampsthwaite in the West Riding of Yorkshire, [2] first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Felgesclif, [3] apparently from an Old Danish personal name Felagh. [4]
The township served Fountains Abbey with flax, with monastery paths leading along Tang Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, still in existence. Traces of Iron Age and Roman settlements have been discovered in the parish, indicating that it has been inhabited continuously for several millennia. [5]
In 1866 Felliscliffe became a separate civil parish. [6] In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.
The parish is west of Harrogate. It includes part of the US intelligence-gathering base at RAF Menwith Hill. Kettlesing Felliscliffe Community Primary School is in Kettlesing. [7]
The parish skyline, on the ridge to the south of the A59, is now dominated by the eight 190 feet (58 m) wind turbine towers of the Knabs Ridge Wind Farm. [8] [9]
John Farrah owned two farms at Felliscliffe before he died in 1907. [10]
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John Farrah, F.L.S., F.R.Met.S was a British grocer, confectioner, biologist and meteorologist from Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. In the late 19th century he developed the business strategy for Farrah's toffee shop which he inherited from his family in Harrogate. He was made a fellow of the Meteorological Society in 1894. He was president of the botanical section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, working with Thomas Sheppard, George Edward Massee, William Eagle Clarke and Charles Crossland, and in 1903 discovered the mycological species Entoloma farrahi, which was named after him, although there has been some question as to its identity since then. He was a close friend of Harrogate historian William Grainge and for some years they were "constant companions", supporting each other in their work. The American mycologist George Francis Atkinson described him as a "great Yorkshire character". Farrah married three times, and had three children.
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