HACKNESS, a parish in the liberty of WHITBYSTRAND,
North riding of the county of YORK, comprising
the chapelry of Harwood-Dale with Silpho, and
the townships of Broxa, Hackness, and Suffield with
Everley, and containing 632 inhabitants, of which number,
143 are in the township of Hackness, 6 miles (W.
by N.) from Scarborough. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese
of York, endowed with £ 1000 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a very ancient structure.
The village is romantically situated in a delightful vale,
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from which several others run in various directions
across the country: the hills which surround the vale are
from one hundred to one hundred and twenty yards in
perpendicular height, and their steep declivities are profusely
adorned with lofty trees of the richest foliage.
Springs of water, rushing in natural cascades from the
sides of the hills, or falling with gentle murmurs, contribute
to the beauty of the scenery; and the Derwent,
which has its source in the mountainoxis country to the
north, glides in a gentle stream past the village: the
whole scene is of a most sublime character. Here was
formerly a cell belonging to Whitby abbey, which, at
the dissolution, contained four monks of the Benedictine
order. ..