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Moorsholm
A Guide to the History of Moorsholm, including the Farndale family’s association with the village
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Introduction
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines of the history of Moorsholm
are in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Contextual history is in purple.
This webpage about Boosbeck has the following
section headings:
- The
Farndales of Moorsholm
- Moorsholm,
an overview
- Moorsholm
Timeline
- Photographs
of Moorsholm today
- Links,
texts and books
The Farndales of Moorsholm
The following Farndales were associated
with Moorsholm: William Farndale (FAR00071);
George Farndale (FAR00073);
John Farndale (FAR00376);
William Farndale (FAR00642);
Elizabeth Farndale (FAR00654);
Bessie Farndale (FAR00824);
Ernest Farndale (FAR00841);
Edith Farndale (FAR00870);
Rubina Farndale (FAR00873);
John Farndale (FAR00880);
Ernest Farndale (FAR00981);
Herbert Farndale (FAR01031)
See also The Moorsholm 1 Line.
Moorsholm, an overview
Moorsholm is a
village in the unitary authority of Redcar and
Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire,
England.
Moorsholm is 8km
from Saltburn-by-the-Sea between the North York Moors and
the North Sea. Because of its proximity to the North Sea coast the area
was vulnerable, historically, to attack by invaders.
Great Moorsholm, 1857
The name of Moorsholm is
of Viking origin with the suffix holm, which meant a settlement,
being affixed to the location of the village by the moors: so meaning
settlement by the moors. It has been interpreted as ‘flat land in a valley’.
The village used to be called Great Moorsholm to distinguish it from a farm
called Little Moorsholm, which is the other side of the Hagg Beck Valley to the
north. 'Little Moorsholm' is a title now more commonly applied to a more modern
housing estate between that farm and Lingdale.
The settlement was
mentioned in the Domesday book as Morehusum, belonging to
the Earl of Morton and later the de Brus family, and from them
descended to the Thwengs, Lumleys, and others. It was a planned
mediaeval village built along a main street with crofts and their
associated tofts on each side.
In 1923, the ancient parish of Skelton,
included the townships of Great Moorsholm and Stanghow. The whole parish
covered 11,803 acres, of which 2,219 acres was arable land, 4,657 acres
permanent grass and 578 acres woods and plantations. In the north the parish
formed a kind of peninsula between the Skelton and Millholme Becks, which have
very steep banks, whence the land slopes downwards, rising again towards the
centre and also towards the south of the parish, where there are wide stretches
of moorland (Victoria
County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding:
Volume 2, Parishes: Skelton).
Great Moorsholm formed the south-eastern
part of the parish. The manor-house was near the centre of the village east of
the main street, while St. Mary's Church, two Methodist chapels and a school
were on the opposite side of the street.
West of the village is Swindale Beck, at
the junction of which with Dale Beck is Moorsholm Mill, probably on the site of
that mentioned in 1697.
Between the river and Stanghow lies
Swindale, first mentioned in 1272, with which the 13th-century 'Swinelandes'
were identified. Further south is Swinsow Dale, to the south-west of which is
Freeborough Hill.
About 1 mile (1.6 km)
to the south of Moorsholm is the landmark of Freeborough
Hill, a detached natural hill which is conical in shape.
Moorsholm Timeline
Bronze Age
There is evidence of
Bronze Age settlement around 2000 BCE.
1060
In the reign of Edward the
Confessor Uctred had a 'manor' of 3 carucates at Great Moorsholm (Morehusum,
in the eleventh century.; Magna Moresum, Moryshum, in the
thirteenth century; Michell Morison in the fourteenth century)
1086
After the Norman Conquest
Moorsholm was held of the Count of Mortain by Richard. The half carucate among
the king's lands in 1086 shortly afterwards became part of the Brus fee to
which the Mortain lands were added later. The land was then held by the Danbys.
1272
Great Moorsholm passed to
Lucy wife of Marmaduke de Thweng of Kilton, which it followed in descent until
1609, when John Lord Lumley died seised, his heir being his nephew Splandrian
Lloyd.
1600
Various grants of land in Skelton
and Moorsholm were made to the priory of Guisborough in early times by the
lords of the manor and their undertenants. These lands may have constituted the
grange granted in 1600 to Edward Carey by Queen Elizabeth; its further history
has not been traced.
1609
After this the manor seems
to have been in the hands of the Crown for a time, various estates here being
held in chief by different people.
1632
Rights to coal mines and
quarries and view of frankpledge were appurtenant to the manor in 1632.
1633
The estate was held by
Philip Wheath in 1633 and called a manor in 1636 when his son Joseph had livery
of it.
1696
In 1696 William Tullie and
his wife Anne, who held Kilton, made a conveyance of lands in Great Moorsholm
to Samuel Diggle, which seems to indicate that the manor again followed the
descent of Kilton.
1806
In 1806 John Wharton of
Skelton and Kilton was lord also of this manor, after which it follows the
descent of the manor of Skelton.
1892
The church of St Mary,
Moorsholm, was built in 1892 and is of stone in 12th-century style. It consists
of chancel, nave and west tower.
1957
The Memorial Hall was built
as a war memorial in 1957 and is used as the doctors’ surgery and meeting room.
Photographs of Moorsholm today
Links, texts and books