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Ellerton Abbey (building)
Ellerton Abbey House is an historic building and estate in Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England. It was built around 1830 for the Fore Erle-Drax family, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England. The property is located at the end of a long driveway off the northern side of the B6270 Richmond Road, about southwest of Ellerton Priory (Swaledale), Ellerton Priory, now ruined. As of 2021, the building is occupied by Ellerton Abbey Antiques and Mrs Pumphrey's Tearoom, the latter in reference to the character in the original version of the BBC television series ''All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series), All Creatures Great and Small'' who lived there with her spoiled Pekingese dog Tricki-Woo. Filming took place inside the house, which was named Barlby Grange in the series, and in its grounds. Drax family Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Priory became the property of a series of people until it was purchased in the 1690s b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton Abbey
Ellerton Abbey is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Swale in lower Swaledale, south-west of Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2016. The parish consists of farmland, a few scattered houses and an area of moorland which is part of the army training area associated with Wathgill, Wathgill Camp. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Ellerton, not to be confused with the modern village of Ellerton-on-Swale 11 miles to the east, but there is no modern village in the civil parish. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The parish includes Ellerton Abbey (building), Ellerton Abbey House and the adjacent ruins of Ellerton Priory (Swaledale), Ellerton Priory. Etymology The place-name ''Ellerton'' derives from the Old English words ''elr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II Listed Buildings In North Yorkshire
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Houses Completed In 1830
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1830 Establishments In England
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Listed Buildings In Ellerton Abbey
Ellerton Abbey is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains four Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish does not contain any settlements, and the listed buildings consist of the ruins of a priory church, a house, a farmhouse with outbuildings, and a boundary stone. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellerton Abbey Lists of listed buildings in North Yorkshire Swaledale, Listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stainton, Richmondshire
Stainton is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in Swaledale. The population of the parish was estimated at 10 in 2016. It lies close to the army training camp of Wathgill in the adjoining civil parish of Walburn. A large part of the parish consists of Ministry of Defence ranges and training areas. It was historically a township in the parish of Downholme which was part of the Hang West wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire. Walburn became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council North Yorkshire Council, known between 1974 and 2023 as North Yorkshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 2023 the council has been a unitary authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marrick
Marrick is a village and List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire, civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, situated in lower Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the village is approximately west of Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond. The parish of Marrick also includes the hamlets of Hurst and Washfold, according to the UK 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 148. History Marrick Priory, a former Benedictines, Benedictine nunnery dating back to the 12th century was the site of the local place of worship, the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew until its conversion into a farm building in 1948, and later an outdoor education and residential centre for young people. The hamlet of Hurst, to the north was a mining centre in the 19th century. Marrickville, New South Wales, Marrickville in Sydney, Australia is named after Marrick, North Yorkshire. Governance The village lies within the Richmond and Northallerton (UK Parliament c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northern Echo
''The Northern Echo'' is a regional daily morning newspaper based in the town of Darlington in North East England, serving mainly southern County Durham and northern Yorkshire. The paper covers national as well as regional news. In 2007, its then-editor claimed that it was one of the most famous provincial newspapers in the United Kingdom. Its first edition was published on 1 January 1870. Its second editor was W. T. Stead, the early pioneer of British investigative journalism, who earned the paper accolades from the leading Liberals of the day, seeing it applauded as "the best paper in Europe." Harold Evans, one of the great campaigning journalists of all time, was editor of ''The Northern Echo'' in the 1960s and argued the case for cervical smear tests for women. Evans agreed with Stead that reporting was "a very good way of attacking the devil". History ''The Northern Echo'' was started by John Hyslop Bell with the backing of the Pease family, largely to counter the cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Drax
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician, landowner, journalist, and former Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset between 2010 and 2024. Early life and education Richard Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London, into the Drax family. He was privately educated at Harrow School before going to the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, where he graduated with a diploma in rural land management in 1990, receiving a further diploma in journalism in 1995. Career Military service Drax passed out from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned in the British Army joining the Coldstream Guards on 9 December 1978 as a second lieutenant. Drax was promoted to lieutenant on 9 December 1980, before being transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers after active service on 9 December 1983, ending his first period of full-time military service. Drax was reinstated on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charborough House
Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Listed building (United Kingdom), Grade I listed building, the manor house of the ancient Manorialism, manor of Charborough. The house is between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England. The grounds, which include a deer park (England), deer park and gardens, adjoin the villages of Winterborne Zelston, Newton Peveril and Lytchett Matravers: they are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and have been called the most splendid parkland in Dorset. Descent The Estate (land), estate is listed as a Manorialism, manor in the Domesday Book of 1086. Erle The Erle (''alias'' Earl, Earle, etc.) family originated in east Devon and moved to neighbouring Dorset in about 1500, but died out in the male line on the death of General Thomas Erle (1650-1720), Thomas III Erle (1650–1720) without male progeny. His daughter and sole heiress Frances Erle (d.1728) married Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drax Hall Estate
Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island's two remaining Jacobean houses. History The estate has belonged to the Drax family since the early 1650s when it was built by James Drax and his brother, William Drax, early settlers in Jamaica. The Drax's Caribbean slave plantations and estates then descended with that of Charborough House in Dorset. By 1680, Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantations on Barbados, then in the parish of St. John. A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired "proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown". Legacy Historian Hilary Beckles estimated that close to 30,000 enslaved African men, women and children died on the Drax Caribbean plantations over 200 years. By 1832, there were 275 people enslaved on the plantation, producing 300 tons of sugar and 140 punche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
