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Three stone and slate mid terraced houses with gardens

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Slide 2 - A date and arms over the porch on the South Front fix the date of the erection of the central portion of the house at 1640. Another portion of the East End bears the date 1651 and the West Wing that of 1656. The extreme eastern end was…

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Slide 1 - Royds Hall is very fine specimen of a Yorkshire Manor house of the Seventeenth Century. It is situated in the Parish of Bradford and is picturesqely seated upon high table - land looking south, affording an extensive and charming prospect.…

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Slide 16 - Emerging from the courtyard, we view the mansion from the back, noticing the buttressed chimney-stacks and diagonally formed summits, peculiar to the period.

In taking our leave of Woodsome, the lines from Tennyson can truly be applied…

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Slide 2 - A flight of steps of ample width leads to a flagged terrace, flanked with an ornamental balustrade of rare beauty, black with age, and covered with pretty creeping plants.

As Canon Hulbert says in his 'Annals of the Church in…

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Slide 1 - Well might Woodsome be described as 'one of the most charming old places in Yorkshire'
A carriage drive through an avenue of trees brings us to the front of the ancient mansion. Taking our stand on the graveled path on the east side of the…

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Slide 4 - In the gardens is a very large and highly finished, detached banqueting hall, of three stages, with an upper turret. The building is thickly ivy clad, and contains the arms of Vavasour and Stanley. It dates from the same period as the Hall.

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Slide 3 - The right wing of the Hall contains a deeply embayed, mullioned window, with a rich mantling of ivy, and is exceedingly picturesque. This wing is generally ascribed to the period of Henry the Seventh.

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Slide 2 - In 1284 Weston Hall was held by William de Stopham, and afterwards it came into the family of Vavasour. For more than five centuries the house has been the ancestral home of the Vavasours, and was retained in the male line until 1883 when…

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Slide 1 - In a retired and beautiful situation near the banks of the Wharfe, and about two miles west of Otley, stands the fine old mansion Weston Hall, whose history goes back to the remote past. As we approach it by the carriage drive, across the…

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Slide 3 - Placed within a park of about sixty acres, the position of Shibden Hall, like that of most old houses, is well chosen. Standing midway down the slope of a hill, its principle frontage is towards the south.

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Slide 9 - Leaving the Hall on our way to the village, we pass along a carriage drive, on each side of which are rows of Wellingtonia firs (natives of California). These form a grateful shade from the sun, and are perhaps as fine specimens of these…

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Slide 6 - In the grounds surrounding the house are many fine 'ancestral trees' copper beeches, variegated sycamores, light coloured elms and weeping beeches.

Our attention is drawn particularly to a magnificent wych elm, the branches of which, it…

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Slide 13 - The late Mr Dent took great pride in planting of the park and grounds, and thus adding to their attractiveness. The 'Pineturn' which he caused to be planted, is remarkable for the rare and uncommon varieties of fir trees which it contains,…

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Slide 12 - Still keeping in the same garden, where are seen numerous fine specimens of trees and shrubs of fine growth. In fact every turn discloses fresh beauties that are bewildering to the photographer in search of subjects, with such a variety to…

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Slide 11 - The Gardens at Ribston are very tastefully and attractively laid out with a numerous assortment of trees and shrubs and flowering plants. Many of these were no doubt planted by Sir Henry Goodricke, the fourth Baronet, who died in 1738. Sir…

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Slide 10. 'The enclosure at the front, half court, half garden, the broad paved approach, leading from the gateway up to the Porch, and the somber old vestibule beyond.'

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Slide 9. Oakwell Hall is the place described in Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley' as 'Fieldhead'. It tallies exactly with the real Oakwell. There are some beautiful touches in the pictures of Fieldhead which are offered us.

We find -- 'If Fieldhead had…

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Slide 5 - On the right are several specimens of cypresses and a couple of beautiful cedars. On the north side of the Hall is the historic bowling green at which Charles 1 passed five consecutive days in his favourite amusements, while waiting for…

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Slide 3 - The pavilion at the east end of the Terrace (though a billiard table shows the use to which it is now put) is still known as the 'Justice Room', the owner at that time being an active magistrate. In those days justice was often dispensed at…

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Slide 1 - Situated in a well wooded recess sheltered from the north, and in full view of the highway leading up the Cliviger valley, stands the quaint mansion of Holme, which for close upon six centuries has been the seat of the Whitaker family. The…

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Slide 11 - Upon such a garden all will look with satisfaction, but let them reflect that the tireless hand maintains it in its perfection. All is controlled and directed by skillful and experienced hands. The great rounded structural bays to the…

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Slide 10 - What could be more beautiful than the rare and radiant floral display of the south front, where multitudes of flowers gleam in their splendor, grouped with the well clipped yew, the noble ornamental bay-trees in tubs and boxes, the fine…
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