The Hawk Creative Business Park is an eco-friendly, sustainable building conversion. It has been undertaken to retain the integrity of the original but at the same time providing high-tech, contemporary, practical office space.



Records going back before 1840 show a farmhouse and buildings at "Low Hawk Hills". That farmhouse forms what is now Unit 'M' of the Park. The original buildings were those immediately surrounding the courtyard itself.

The Hawkhills 'estate' was an enormous estate of land stretching from Easingwold to Stillington in the North to Huby and Tollerton cross roads in the South. In the second half of the 18th century it was bought by the Love family from County Durham where they had made their fortune in the coal mining industry. This allowed them to develop the estate and become major benefactors to the market town of Easingwold where a number of buildings have foundation stones bearing the name of Katherine Love.

The farm buildings and the 'new' farm house were built in the 1880s along a model farm basis using bricks made from clay dug out of the ground adjacent to the A19 and now overgrown with the woodland there.

While carrying out the development of the site under the watchful and expert eye of the York Archeological Trust remnants of a medieval barn were discovered giving further proof of bygone habitation. When the Easingwold bypass was built ancient wattle roadways were discovered dating from the time when the area was part of the ancient 'Forest of Galtres'.