Great Busby

Great Busby est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.

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Great Busby

Great Busby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was estimated at 70 in 2013. It is near the North York Moors and Stokesley. It is pronounced great 'Buzz - Bee'. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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Dromonby Hall

Dromonby Hall is a historic building in Kirkby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A hall on the site was recorded in the Domesday Book. The current house was built in the 16th century for the Constable family, and it was extended to the east in the 18th century. Much of the original part of the house was later demolished, and the easternmost part of the extension was partitioned to form Dromonby Hall Cottage. The hall was extended to the rear in the 20th century. The building was grade I listed in 1975. The house is built of stone, the cottage is pebbledashed, the roofs of the hall and the cottage are in Lakeland slate, and the outbuilding has a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys, and the hall has a T-shaped plan, with two bays and a cross-wing, and the cottage has two bays. Most of the windows are sashes, and there is a round-arched stair window. In the left return is a blocked doorway with a chamfered surround and a flattened Tudor arch. Inside, the small sitting room has a Tudor plastered ceiling, depicting lions, unicorns, acorns, fruit and fleur-de-lys. The staircase is late 18th century, while the dining room is early 18th century, with salt and spice cupboards built in. There are two fireplaces from about 1810.

Little Busby

Little Busby is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors and Stokesley. It is pronounced little 'Buzz - Bee'. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2013. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Busby Hall is a country house, possibly built after a fire of 1764. It is constructed from finely-coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone with a Lakeland slate roof in 2 storeys to an L-shaped floorplan and has a 5 bay frontage. The building is grade II* listed.

St Augustine's Church, Kirkby

St Augustine's Church is the parish church of Kirkby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. There was a church in Kirkby from the early mediaeval period, and by the early 19th century, it was a cruciform building with a central tower. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1815, although the vestry was constructed using some of the stones from the old church. The chancel of the new church was rebuilt by Temple Moore in 1905. The building was grade II* listed in 1966. The church is built of sandstone, the nave and vestry have a roof of Lakeland slate, and the chancel roof is tiled. The church consists of a nave, a taller chancel with a clerestory, a south aisle, a north chapel, a south vestry, and a west tower with an embattled parapet and corner pinnacles. The nave has round-arched windows and a sundial. Inside, there is a west gallery, late Georgian memorial tablets, fragments of Saxon sculpture built into the vestry, and an aumbry, piscina, sedilia and painted wooden reredos in the chancel.

Kirkby, North Yorkshire

Kirkby (historically known as Kirkby-in-Cleveland) is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, near Great Busby and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Stokesley. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Uhtred. The name of the village derives from the Old Norse kirkju-býr, which means church with a village. At the 2001 Census, the population of the village was recorded at 313, dropping slightly to 309 at the 2011 Census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 310. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The village used to be served by Stokesley railway station on the Picton to Battersby railway line, which was 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village. The A172 road is to the north and the B1257 Stokesley to Helmsley road is in the village of Great Broughton, 0.62 miles (1 km) to the east. St Augustine's Church, Kirkby was built in 1815 to replace a medieval building. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 1900s by London architect Temple Moore. It is a grade II* listed building. Besides the church, Kirkby also has a village hall and a public house, the Black Swan. To the south of the village is Kirby Bank (without a second 'K'). Part of the pathway there is a medieval greenway known as the Kirby Bank Trod, which is believed to have been laid in the 12th century as part of the route to Rievaulx Abbey. The track is a scheduled ancient monument. West of the village is Dromonby, the location of Dromonby Hall, a grade I listed 16th-century house.