The cottages on the right were demolished in the 1970s, and a single house was built on the site, the tree is still there, 2014. The cottages were originally owned by Murgatroyds of Oats Royd Mill.
Slide 7 - The village of Howsham consists of one long street, with houses on one side only, the other side being bounded by Howsham Park. In this village stands the house (shown in the picture) in which George Hudson the 'Railway King' was born.
Slide 1 - Nunnington, I was once told by a native of an adjoining Ryedale village, was not worth going to see, there being nothing in, or about the place of any interest what so ever. In corroboration of this statement, the writer of 'Murray's…
Slide 2 - The road descends steeply to the village. The quaint looking houses are perched on the high grassy banks on either side, and before us at the foot of the descent is the Rye with its wooded foot bridge and far-off line of hills
Slide 17 - On one side of the village green is the Boat Farm, formerly the Boat Inn shown in the photograph on the right. The Copley coat of arms appears over the doorway. A tradition lingers about Sprotbrough that Sir Walter Scott and a friend spent…
Slide 18 - Another photograph shows where 'Upon a promontory small, the water mill juts out' which bears on one of the gables the Arms of the Copley's dates 1653, and on the keystone of the doorway is the date 1748. Opposite the mill on the rivers…