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Hovingham
Hovingham is a large village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the Howardian Hills and about south of Kirkbymoorside. History The name 'Hovingham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Hovingham''. The settlement lay within the ''Maneshou'' hundred. The lands at the time of the Norman conquest of England, Norman invasion belonged to Orm, son of Gamal. After the invasion, the lands were granted to Hugh, son of Baldric. The name 'Hovingham' means 'the village of Hofa's people'. There is evidence of Roman activity around the village which sat on the Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton to Aldburgh road in those times. During the construction of Hovingham Hall gardens, a Roman bath, tesselated pavement and other artefacts were uncovered. The village had a Hovingham railway station, station on the Thirsk and Malton line, Thirsk and Malton branch of the North Eastern Railway. Governance The village is within the Thirsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovingham Hall
Hovingham Hall is a country house built in the Palladian style in the village of Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England. It has been the seat of the Worsley baronets#Worsley baronets, of Hovingham Hall (1838), Worsley family and the childhood home of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Duchess of Kent. It was built in the 18th century on a site the Worsleys have occupied since the 16th century. It is built of limestone ashlar with Westmoreland slate roofs to an L-shaped floor plan. An attached stable wing forms the main entrance. The hall is Listed building#England and Wales, Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England. A Tuscan temple and the ornamental bridge over a waterfall in the grounds of the hall are both listed Grade II. The wall to the north and the east of the hall and a pigeoncote to the north are both also Grade II listed. History The Worsley family bought Hovingham manor in 1563. The present house was built between 1750 and 1774 by Thomas Worsley VI (1710� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovingham Railway Station
Hovingham Spa railway station was located just north of the village of Hovingham in North Yorkshire, England and opened on 19 May 1853. Regular passenger service ceased on 1 January 1931 but freight traffic and occasional special passenger trains continued until complete closure on 10 August 1964. It was part of the Thirsk and Malton (T&M) rail route, which paralleled today's B1257 road from Hovingham to Malton. The station had a single platform on the ''up'' side of the line, which was originally very low, but which was in 1865 partially raised to the NER standard height of . The station offices were incorporated in the stationmaster's house, a two-storey brick building. The goods yard, mainly on the ''up'' side of the line, had up to six sidings which served the coal drops, two warehouses, a cattle dock, and another loading dock, and handled timber traffic. In the 1950s goods traffic increased due to limestone from nearby Wath WATH (970 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovingham Primary School
Hovingham Primary School is a former school in Hovingham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The school and attached teacher's house were built in 1864. An extension was added in 1880, to provide a primary schoolroom. The building was grade II listed in 1987. By 2022, the school had no pupils and in 2023 it was closed down, against local objections. At the time, it was proposed that it would be converted to a community use. The school and house are built of stone with Welsh slate roofs. The school has a single storey, an open schoolroom to the east, and an extension to the north. In the centre of the main block is a three-light transomed window flanked by paired trefoil-headed windows. On the right return is an oriel window. The entrance on the left has a hood mould, over which is an inscribed plaque, and to its left is a window with a dated lintel and a half-dormer above. The house has two storeys, three bays, and an outshut on the left. It contains a bay window ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints' Church, Hovingham
All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Hovingham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 11th century, from which period the tower survives. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1860, in a 13th-century style, by Rohde Hawkins. The tower was re-roofed in about 1970. The church has been grade II* listed since 1954. The church is built of limestone with a Westmorland slate roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, and contains a round-arched west doorway with free-standing shafts and four orders. Above are string courses, a 9th-century carved cross, a round-headed window and slit windows in the middle stage, and above are narrow double bell openings, a 10th-century wheel cross, an east clock face, and a corbel table. The south doorway is Norman, with two orders, and in the south wall of the chancel is a re-set round-arched doorway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wath, Ryedale
Wath is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Hovingham, in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated at the northern edge of the Howardian Hills AONB, about east of Hovingham on the B1257 road which crosses here over Wath Beck. Limestone is quarried here which in the 1950s was in demand by the steel industry for lining the furnaces. In the late 19th century there were only two houses, later just one farm. The population in 1880 was 11 persons, increasing to 20 in 1914 and decreasing to six in 1950. The area of Wath covered about and included the northeastern part of Wath Wood. Wath was formerly a township in the parish of Hovingham, in 1866 Wath became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1986 the parish was abolished and merged with Hovingham. In 1971 the parish had a population of 6. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of Ryedale district, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The farm on the northern side of the road is now used as business premises by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slingsby, North Yorkshire
Slingsby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, west of Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton on the B1257 road. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 634, increasing to 665 at the 2011 Census. History The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Selungesbi" in the "Maneshou hundred". It was part of the Hovingham manor, but some land was owned by ''Orm, son of Gamul'' at the time of the Norman invasion. Afterwards land around the manor were split between ''Hugh, son of Baldric'' and Robert of Mortain, Count Robert of Mortain. The manor passed to the ''Mowbray'' family until 1322, when John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, John de Mowbray was beheaded for rising against the Crown. The ''Wyville'' family held land under the Mowbrays. The ''Hastings'' family held the manor until 1595 when it was purchased by Charles Cavendish (1553–1617), Sir Charles Cavendish (d. 1617). He planned to build a new mansion, employing the architect Robert Smythson, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scackleton
Scackleton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Howardian Hills and south-west of Hovingham. History The village is mentioned three times in the ''Domesday Book'' as ''Scacheldene'' or ''Scachelsey'' in the ''Bulford'' hundred. At the time of the Norman conquest of England, Norman invasion, the lands around the village were owned by ''Orm, son of Gamal'', ''Earl Waltheof'' and ''Gamal, son of Kalri''. Afterwards the lands were granted to ''Hugh, son of Baldric'', ''Robert of Mortain, Count Robert of Mortain'' and ''King William I of England, King William I''. A school was built in the village in 1866, but is no longer in use. A Primitive Methodist church was also erected in 1888, which is also no longer in use. Governance The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council. The 1881 UK Census rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrington
Terrington is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the Howardian Hills, west of Malton. History The village is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Teurintone''. The lands were divided between the manors of ''Bulmer'' and ''Foston''. At the time of the time of Norman Conquest of England, lands in the manor were held by ''Ligulf'', ''Northmann'', '' Earl Morcar'', ''Earl Waltheof'' and ''Gamal, son of Karli''. Afterwards the lands were granted to '' Robert, Count of Mortain'', '' Count Alan of Brittany'' and ''Berengar of Tosny''. The manor was held soon after by ''Niel Fossard'' and then followed the descent of the manor of nearby Sheriff Hutton. Other lands were tenanted in the 13th century by the ''Latimer'' family and followed the descent of his manor at Danby until the 16th century. The manor was not held in demesne like other manors. In 1427 the manor was held by the lord of Sessay manor, Edmund Darell, and remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howardian Hills
The Howardian Hills are a range of hills in England located between the Yorkshire Wolds, the North York Moors, and the Vale of York. They are named after the Howard family, who still own land locally, and have been designated a National Landscape. Topography The Howardian Hills form 79 square miles of well-wooded undulating countryside between the flat agricultural Vales of Pickering and York. The irregular high ridges of the Howardian Hills are a southern extension of the rocks of the Hambleton Hills in the North York Moors. Jurassic limestone, pastures, and extensive woodland overlook the agricultural plains below. On the eastern edge, the River Derwent cuts through the Hills in the Kirkham Gorge, a deep winding valley formed as an overflow channel from glacial Lake Pickering. Settlement Although there are no towns within the AONB, the market towns of Helmsley and Malton lie just beyond the boundary. From Malton to Hovingham is a line of spring line villages. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryedale
Ryedale was a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages and towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic period. The economy was largely agricultural with light industry and tourism playing an increasing role. Towns included Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton, Norton-on-Derwent, and Pickering, North Yorkshire, Pickering. Part of Ryedale lies within the North York Moors National Park. The A64 road (England), A64 passed through Ryedale and villages such as Rillington. In the 2011 Census, the population of this primarily rural area of 150,659 hectares, the largest district in North Yorkshire, was 51,700. Derivation of name The name refers to the River Rye, Yorkshire, River Rye and was previously used for the Ryedale wapentake of Yorkshire, which covered r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malton, North Yorkshire
Malton is a market town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town has a population measured for both the civil parish and the electoral ward at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census as 4,888. The town is located to the north of the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent, which forms the historic boundary between the North Riding of Yorkshire, North and East Riding of Yorkshire, East Ridings of Yorkshire. Until 2023 the town was part of the Ryedale district and was the location of the headquarters of the district council. Facing Malton on the other side of the Derwent is Norton-on-Derwent, Norton. The Karro Food Group (formerly known as Malton Bacon Factory), Malton bus station and Malton railway station are located in Norton-on-Derwent. Malton is the local area's commercial and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coulton, North Yorkshire
Coulton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, it is about south of Helmsley. History The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as ''Coletun''. The lands around the village are mentioned in four entries, in which landowners at the time of the Norman invasion include ''Orm, Son of Gamal'', ''Othulf'', ''Uthred'' and ''King Edward''. After the invasion, the lands were granted to '' Count Robert of Mortain'', ''Hugh, son of Baldric'' and '' King William''. Coulton Mill was first recorded in the 12th century and is a grade II* listed building. Governance The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council. Geography The nearest settlements are Hovingham to the north-east; Scackleton Scackleton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Howardian Hills and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
