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Beningbrough railway station was on the East Coast Main Line that served the villages of Shipton-by-Beningbrough and Beningbrough, North Yorkshire, England from 1841 to 1965.
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Shipton, North Yorkshire
Shipton (also known as Shipton-by-Beningbrough) is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of York.
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Beningbrough
Beningbrough is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Shipton, North Yorkshire.
Beningbrough village is 6 miles (10 km) north-west from York city centre. The parish, which includes Beningbrough Hall and Park, is bordered at the south-west by the River Ouse, historically the border between the North Riding and West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2001 Census, parish population was 55.
Beningbrough is within the ecclesiastical parish of Shipton with Overton. The parish church of Holy Evangelists is at Shipton by Beningbrough.
Beningbrough is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Benniburg", meaning a "stronghold associated with a man called 'Beonna'", being an Old English person name. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Beningbrough was in the Bulford Hundred of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement contained five households and five villagers, with one-and-a-half ploughlands, three furlongs of woodland, and six acres of meadow. In 1066, Asfrith was lord, this transferred to Ralph in 1086, with Hugh fitzBaldric becoming tenant-in-chief to king William I.
In 1870 Beningbrough was a township in the parish of Newton-on-Ouse, containing 88 people in 15 houses within an area of 1,070 acres (4.3 km2), and in 1877, 74 people in 1,092 acres (4.4 km2). From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Beningbrough railway station was the first station out of York on the main line to Newcastle. The station opened on the GNER line in 1841; closed to passengers in 1958, and to freight in 1965.
The racehorse Beningbrough, winner of the 1794 St Leger Stakes, was named after the village.
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Red House, Moor Monkton
The Red House is a historic building in Moor Monkton, north-west of York in England.
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Skelton Hall
Skelton Hall is a Grade II listed building located in North Yorkshire, England. In 1814 Mrs Mary Thompson, the widow of Henry Thompson, came to live in Skelton at The Cottage from where she not only kept an eye on the repairs that she financed at the church, but also on the building of Skelton Lodge (later Hall) which is shown in an 1839 lithograph. The Lodge became The Hall in about 1867, and the Thompsons were succeeded as owners by the Thornton Duesberys.