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Burnsall is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, and is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The village is approximately south-east from Grassington. It has a parish church, a chapel, two hotels with restaurants, a public house, and a primary school. The school, Grade II listed, is in the original 1602 grammar school building, a legacy of William Craven of nearby Appletreewick.〔("Burnsall Grammar School" ), Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Retrieved 5 April 2015〕 There is a five-arched bridge over which the Dalesway passes. A path along the river from Burnsall to Hebden, to the north-west, dates to Viking times. The historic parish of Burnsall occupied a large part of upper Wharfedale. It included the townships of Appletreewick, Bordley, Conistone with Kilnsey, Cracoe, Hartlington, Hetton, Rylstone and Thorpe, all of which became separate civil parishes in 1866.〔("Burnsall CP/AP" ), ''A Vision of Britain through time''〕 The parish was in Staincliffe Wapentake and in the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when it was transferred to North Yorkshire. The 2001 Census gave Burnsall parish a population of 112 increasing to 148 at the 2011 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish population 2011 )〕 The ecclesiastical parish of Burnsall is in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales.〔("Burnsall: St Wilfrid, Burnsall" ), The Church of England. Retrieved 5 April 2015〕 The parish church of St Wilfrid's, a Grade I listed building, is almost entirely Perpendicular. It contains an 11th-century font carved with bird and beasts, twelve Anglo-Saxon sculpture fragments and a 14th-century alabaster panel depicting the Adoration of the Magi. The church-yard is entered from the main road by a lychgate. Burnsall is a centre for walking, trout fishing, picnics, and weddings. An annual feast day games in August includes amateur competitions, tug of war and fell races. The village cricket pitch is below Burnsall Fell and is half enclosed by the river. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burnsall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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