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You will never find Feizor
unless you look for it, or unless you are a relentless explorer of the
North Craven limestone countryside. Likewise you will never, in our experience,
find anything very useful about it on the Internet, because of the countless
directories which claim to know something, but actually don't. Enough griping
- I am beginning to hate directories!!
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Feizor
is somewhere between a hamlet and a village, and is, for those interested
in Ordnance Survey maps, to be found at SD790677, between Austwick and
Giggleswick/Settle in the "Three Peaks" sector of the Yorkshire Dales -
but nicely hidden from the A65.
It is a very old place. The name is apparently made up of an Old Irish personal name "Fiach" and the Old Norse word "erg", meaning "sheiling" (source) which itself can mean hut, small-holding, etc.. So Feizor was in fact Fiach's Pad, and there is a house in Feizor with the word "Sheiling" in it's name. Many of the houses, such as Old Hall Farm (on the right as you enter Feizor), are extremely old (Elizabethan) although this is not always obvious as there has been a bit of a surge in renovation and conversion. This seems to have happened particularly since the foot and mouth epidemic and the subsequent (apparent) relaxation of planning controls for barn conversions and the like. |
There is currently no shop and nowhere to get a drink of any type, although there was a cafe here in the late 1990s - SEE BELOW. Feizor is a nice crossroads for several footpaths, and the surrounding limestone scenery, field system, and old green tracks are exquisite. It is an ideal place to stroll through slowly.
29/5/08: We've just received an e-mail from someone who has just had a really good "tea with scones" in Feizor. So - Sorry Feizor! The world moves on!
For more local place-name derivations see "Place-Names of the Yorkshire Dales" by Peter Metcalfe, North Yorkshire Marketing, 1992. ISBN 1873214030
