Listed Buildings In Aysgarth
Aysgarth is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 14 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Aysgarth and the surrounding area. The listed buildings include houses and cottages, a church, a public house, a bridge, a set of stocks, a former watermill, now a museum, and associated buildings, a boundary stone, a milepost, a rock garden and a war memorial. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources

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Aysgarth
Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about south-west of Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond and west of the county town of Northallerton. History A Bronze Age burial has been found in the village. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Echescard''. The toponymy is derived from the combination of the Old Norse words ''eiki'', meaning oak, and ''skarð'', which may mean open space, cleft or mountain pass, so the probable meaning is ''Oak tree cleft'', referring to the valley cut by the River Ure. At the time of the Norman Conquest, the Manorialism, manor was held by Cnut, son of Karli. Afterwards the manor was in the possession of Count Alan of Brittany, who granted lordship to Geoffrey of Swaffham. By the 13th century, the manor was in the hands of the ''Burgh'' family of Hackforth. The manor descended with the manor of Hackforth until 1480, at which time ...
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