Wensley (Yorkshire du Nord)

Wensley est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre. Il donne son nom au Wensleydale, l'une des vallées des Yorkshire Dales.

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Wensley, North Yorkshire

Wensley is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few homes and holiday cottage, an inn, a pub and a historic church. It is on the A684 road 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the market town of Leyburn. The River Ure passes through the village. The etymology of the name ultimately originates either from a compound of an Old English form of the god Woden (attested Wednesleg c. 1212, earlier Wodnesleie, see Wednesday), and the Old English leah meaning wood or meadow. Another possible route for the first part is the personal name Wændel. Wensley gives its name to the dale Wensleydale. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. For a century after its charter in 1202, Wensley had the only market in the dale and this continued into the 16th century. Plague struck Wensley in 1563, some surviving villagers fled to Leyburn, but the village recovered a century later when Charles Paulet built Bolton Hall in 1678 and became Duke of Bolton. Bolton Hall, is now 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the heart of Wensley, near Preston-under-Scar, Richmondshire; it was rebuilt after a fire in 1902. Wensley's Holy Trinity Church dates to 1300 and is a Grade I listed building. It is now redundant and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. It was featured as the wedding venue of James and Helen Herriot in the 1978 BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, in the episode "The Last Furlong". Wensley's railway station is now closed. It was situated 1-mile (1.6 km) to the north between Wensley and Preston-under-Scar, on the Wensleydale Railway line which still passes the village. Leyburn Old Glebe nature reserve lies about 440 yards (400 m) east of the village. Ernie Gillatt, a footballer active in the 1920s, was born in Wensley.

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Holy Trinity Church, Wensley

Holy Trinity Church is a redundant Anglican church on Low Lane in the village of Wensley, North Yorkshire, England. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building (since 13 February 1967), and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Alec Clifton-Taylor included the church in his list of 'best' English parish churches.

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Leyburn Old Glebe

Leyburn Old Glebe Nature Reserve is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It is about 440 yards (400 m) east of the village of Wensley and 0.6 miles (1 km) southwest of Leyburn. The site is a traditionally-managed 3 hectare hay meadow on a south-facing slope, overlooking the River Ure. It is one of the best preserved unimproved meadows in the Yorkshire Dales. Each year, after the flowers have set seed, an autumn hay cut and grazing by a limited number of sheep are essential management to prevent the area becoming overgrown. Meadows have declined in Britain over the last century, due mainly to intensive agriculture, and it is estimated that 97% of Britain's meadows have been destroyed since the 1930s, so areas like Leyburn Glebe are vital to the survival of many plant species. Many unusual flowers can be seen there. The Wildlife Trust ask that visitors keep to the edges of the meadow so that rare and/or delicate plants are not damaged. Animals seen in the reserve include small skipper butterfly, yellowhammer and stoat. The word glebe means land that was granted to the local priest, to provide him with an income. It comes from the Latin gleba, meaning clod/soil/land. The nature reserve was owned by a local church until 1983.

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The Mount, North Yorkshire

The Mount, or Polly Peachum's Tower, is a hunting tower near Wensley and about a mile south-east of Bolton Hall, in North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

Wensley railway station

Wensley railway station is a disused railway station on the Wensleydale Railway, in North Yorkshire, England. It was opened by the North Eastern Railway on 1 February 1877, and served the village of Wensley. The station was host to camping coach from 1936 to 1939 and may have had a coach visiting in 1934 and 1935. The station closed on 26 April 1954. The station buildings and platforms survive as a private residence. The railway through the station was reopened as the Wensleydale Railway.

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