Blubberhouses
| Blubberhouses | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's church | |
  Blubberhouses Location within North Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE167553 |
| • London | 180 mi (290 km) SSE |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OTLEY |
| Postcode district | LS21 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Blubberhouses is a small village and civil parish located in the Washburn Valley in the borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, a county in the north of England. The population as at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Fewston. It is situated to the south of the Yorkshire Dales national park, and to the north of a Roman road and Fewston Reservoir on the A59 road linking Harrogate to Skipton.
History[]
The name of the village derives from the Anglo-Saxon bluberhūs = "the house(s) which is/are at the bubbling stream",[1] with a later regularised plural; the -um form came from the Anglo-Saxon dative plural case æt bluberhūsum = "at the houses which ...". Later forms of the name on record include "Bluburgh", "Bluborrow", and "Bluburhouse".[2]
The Anglican village church of St Andrew's was designed by Edward Buckton Lamb. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Fewston.[3] The village has a cricket team who play at a ground alongside the River Washburn.[4]
In July 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France from York to Sheffield, passed through the village. It was also the location of the first climb of the stage, the Category 4 Côte de Blubberhouses, at the 47 kilometres (29 mi) point. It was 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) long at an average gradient of 6.1%. The single point for the King of the Mountains competition was claimed by Frenchman, Cyril Lemoine of Cofidis.[5]
Blubberhouses is used as a key setting for local composer Andy Tillison's composition Le Sacre Du Travail,[6] a five movement electric sinfonia recorded by the progressive rock ensemble The Tangent. The work is, according to the CD sleeve notes, loosely based around Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring). One section of the second movement is named "Dawn At Blubberhouses" and the village is mentioned by name in the lyrics/libretto. A short story in the CD sleeve describes the journey of a man travelling to work through the village in the small hours of the morning. The CD album was released in 2013 by the German record label Inside Out Music.
References[]
- ^ Mills, A.D. (2011). A Dictionary of British Place Names. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001. ISBN 9780199609086.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 47. OCLC 12542596.
- ^ "Fewston with Blubberhouses: Home". fewstonwithblubberhouses.org.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
- ^ "Blubberhouses Cricket Club". Retrieved 10 June 2008.
- ^ "Tour de France Stage 1". Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Tangent, The. Le Sacre Du Travail. 5052205065525 UPC.
External links[]
Media related to Blubberhouses at Wikimedia Commons- Landslide near Blubberhouses September 2010 British Geological Survey
- Villages in North Yorkshire
- Civil parishes in North Yorkshire