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.
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.
Location
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]
Notable residents
John Farrah owned two farms at Felliscliffe before he died in 1907.[10]