Talk:Farndale

Merger of Farndale LNR to Farndale
Merger with Farndale is an excellent idea, given that this article is very short, and could be added easily. Why doesn't it happen?--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:54, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Seeing no opposition, this merger can be done. WTF? (talk) 18:08, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Evictions rant
I have just removed a section, added with conviction by Ardent capitalist. S/he is a new editor and I'm sure means well. The piece was unreferenced and probably carried a lot of the editor's own opinion. However, there's probably a fair bit in what was written and it would be good if someone could research the background to the story and present it in an encyclopedic style. Here's the section I removed:

"Most recently the valley has been in the national media for the attempt by one of the heirs to the Barratt estate (which owns much of Farndale) to rapidly evict multiple families from estate cottages in order to pay inheritance tax. At a meeting on Monday 19th August in Low Mill's Band Room, it was noted that the initial thirteen occupied properties intended for immediate sale had been reduced to the evictions of four families from one village. This had had an immediate effect on the press coverage, with one York newspaper using the words 'heart', 'homes' and 'landlord' in their update headline. It emerged that the agents had offered some residents the option of buying, others had not been, that one house had been sold, subject to survey as vacant with a sitting tenant and her young daughter still in residence, that the evictions dates of the four families were not the same and that some tenants were too frightened even to come to the meeting, for fear of being singled out for eviction. Some people were safe 'for the forseeable future' according to letters, some had received letters first promising them they were 'safe' from eviction but a week later had received notice that soon they might be asked to leave, others had received apologies for this debacle.

It was suspected by tenants and freeholders alike that the strategy was to minimise bad press for the Barratt name, allowing properties to be sold off one or two at a times in months and years to come without the potential for mass protest. Questions were asked as to the occupation and whereabouts of the 'penniless' brother who had instigated this series of evictions.

The press was present, although the two heirs to the Barratt estate who had received notice of the meeting were not. Some people suggested legal action be investigated, others suggested this was a moral and ethical matter which was set to reduce a thriving, diverse Yorkshire dale to one which was filled with occasional inhabitants. One drew attention to the fact that to install a two foot square wooden window in the back of their house was too much for the National Park Planning Authority, but that to allow the forcible removal of the population of a thriving, working valley community to allow room for the wealthy's second (or third) homes would be quite acceptable. A local Councillor drew attention to the fact that Farndale had been subject to big business' desires before, when it was planned to become a reservoir for Hull's water supply. The outcome, after protest from its inhabitants, was in favour of the people who lived there.

Freeholders were as concerned about the apparent lack of care of the National Park Authority as were tenants. The feeling of insecurity and injustice, including that to the memory of Sir Laurence Barratt who frequently professed his love for Farndale and its residents, was uppermost. It was decided that there was an extremely good case to be put forwards, that there was complete negligence of the welfare of good tenants and that people would stand together to maintain an increasingly rare community." Francis Hannaway (talk) 17:50, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Etymology
A Gaelic origin for either of the elements of the name is highly unlikely - the area wasn't occupied by Gaels in the past - so we should look to the three cultural groups who did live in the area: the Britons, the Angles and the Danes. The Britons spoke a Celtic language referred to as Brythonic, which is the ancestor of Welsh, however there are very few remaining Brythonic place names to the east of the Pennines as a result of Anglian settlement and dominance in the 6th and 7th century, so Anglian or Norse origins are most likely. The Norse word for sheep is "faar" not "fæn" The name of the River Dove on the other hand probably is Celtic - the names of rivers often survive Anglian settlement Northern rock (talk) 16:22, 17 April 2023 (UTC)