12-604: The Chevin is a hill in West Yorkshire, England The Chevin may also refer to : The Chevin The Chevin is the ridge on the south side of Wharfedale in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England, overlooking the market town of Otley , and often known as Otley Chevin. The name is Brythonic in origin, the earliest attestation of the name in English is an eleventh-century copy of
24-459: A charter from 972 which gives the spelling as Scefinc , with another charter of around 1030 records it as on Scefinge . These early spellings suggest that an originally Celtic term (related to the Modern Welsh "is y cefn", meaning below the ridge) was borrowed into English, as the initial s- likely indicates the name was preceded by a word unfamiliar to speakers of Old English . As such,
36-539: A pool at the foot of the slope. The Chevin is largely covered in attractive old woodland and heathland. It is a part of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit group. A Roman road ran along the top of the Chevin, part of the road that linked Eboracum ( York ), Calcaria ( Tadcaster ) and Olicana ( Ilkley ), perhaps on the same route as the modern road, Yorkgate, or perhaps about 800 metres (2,600 ft) to
48-514: Is a stately home in Farnley , North Yorkshire , England . It is located near Otley . The original early seventeenth-century house was added to in the 1780s by John Carr , who also designed Harewood House . The hall is now a Grade I listed building . The house consists of an 18th-century square block with earlier and later L-shaped wings at the rear and is built of coursed squared gritstone and ashlar with stone slate and lead roofs. Farnley hall
60-598: Is a free, weekly, timed, 5 km run, organised by local volunteers. As a recreational area, the Chevin is divided in two by the East Chevin Road. The famous painting Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps by J. M. W. Turner which hangs in the Tate Gallery , is reputed to have been inspired by a view of the Chevin with a stormy background sky. Turner used to stay with his friend Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall on
72-524: Is the site of a cross erected every Easter since 1969. Parts of the Chevin, known as the Danefield Estate, belonged to landowner Walter Fawkes and his descendants. After World War II these areas were donated to Otley Urban District Council as a memorial to those from the Wharfe Valley who had lost their lives during the war. Several outcrops of rock are distributed across the upper slopes of
84-621: The Chevin and are popular for climbing and bouldering . The Chevin also has a number of footpaths and bridlepaths , and is popular with walkers, runners and riders. It is crossed by the Leeds link to the Dales Way , and the Ebor Way . There is also an Orienteering course in the forest park, with maps available from the local tourist office. Chevin Forest parkrun takes place at 9am every Saturday morning - it
96-411: The opposite side of the valley to the Chevin. Recalling a day in the autumn of 1810 Fawkes' son, Hawkesworth, remembered a storm that inspired one of Turner's major paintings: Otley indie rock band The Chevin take their name from the hill. 53°53′37″N 1°41′28″W / 53.89358°N 1.69107°W / 53.89358; -1.69107 Farnley Hall (North Yorkshire) Farnley Hall
108-400: The south. The highest point of the Chevin is often thought to be Surprise View , however it is in fact Beacon Hill next to Yorkgate quarry which reaches 283 metres (928 ft) at grid reference SE199441 and used to be the site of a trig point. Surprise View is the more visited summit of the Chevin and offers extensive views of Otley and Wharfedale , and has an adjacent car park. It
120-710: The word Chevin simply means "back", "ridge" or "ridge of high land", and shares its etymology with many other hills across western Europe, such as The Cheviot in Northumberland, Cefn Cribwr and Cefn Bryn in Glamorgan and the Cévennes in France. One of the steep hillsides of the Chevin is called the Great Dib , first attested in 1290 as Dibe . Since dib is a Middle English word for 'pool', this name probably originally referred to
132-613: Was known as Walter Ramsden Fawkes. He was MP for Yorkshire in 1806 and was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1823. During his tenure a regular visitor was the Victorian artist and philosopher John Ruskin , who was taken with the enormous collection of paintings by J. M. W. Turner , a close friend of the Ramsden Fawkes. Between 1808 and 1824 Farnley was a second home to Turner. Ramsden Fawkes owned over 250 Turner watercolours and six large oil paintings. A selection of Turner's works from
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#1732855477954144-402: Was occupied in the 1780s by Francis Fawkes. After his death in 1786, Farnley Hall was inherited by distant relative Walter Hawkesworth of Hawksworth Hall, who adopted the surname Fawkes by royal licence and commissioned John Carr to build the new range alongside the old. When Walter Fawkes died in 1792 the hall passed to his son, also Walter Hawkesworth , who also adopted the surname Fawkes, and
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