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Plompton (formerly also spelt Plumpton) is a hamlet and civil parish south of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A661. Plompton Hall is a Grade II* listed building designed by the architect John Carr and built about 1760. The composer John Hebden originates from the parish.

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Plompton Hall

Plompton Hall is a historic building in Plompton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The Plompton estate was purchased by Daniel Lascelles in about 1755. He commissioned John Carr to rebuild the country house, with work starting in about 1757. However, Lascelles later bought Goldsborough Hall and decided to live there. In 1762, he had the unfinished house at Plompton demolished. The stable block, perhaps modelled on the one at Houghton Hall, was retained, with part of it converted to form a smaller house, now known as Plompton Hall. Both the house and the remaining part of the stables were altered in the 20th century, and in about 1980 the southern part of the stables was converted into a further house. Plompton Hall and its stables are separately grade II* listed. The house has rusticated quoins, an eaves cornice, and a hipped stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting under a pediment. In the centre is a full-height recessed round arch with voussoirs and an impost band. This contains a doorway with sidelights, above which is a window with a semicircular wrought iron balcony. Flanking the doorway are round-headed niches and semicircular niches above. The outer bays contain windows, blind in the ground floor and sashes above. At the rear is a canted bay window. Short flanking walls, about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high, link the house with the stables, the left wall with three ball and cushion finials. The stable block is built of stone with a stone slate roof, and consists of three two-storey ranges around a courtyard. The main range is the west range, which has rusticated quoins, and seven bays. The middle bay projects slightly, and contains a tall archway with a rusticated surround, an open triangular pediment, and an octagonal cupola with clock faces, dentilled eaves and a ball finial with a moulded base. The flanking bays have impost bands, a moulded eaves cornice, and a hipped roof, and contain engaged arcading with windows. The east range has five lower bays, with taller bays at each end. The north range is a three-bay hay barn. In the courtyard, there is a dog kennel in the northwest corner, and a carriage house in the northeast corner.

Plumpton Rocks

Plumpton Rocks is a man-made lake and surrounding pleasure gardens 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, near the village of Plompton. The site is now operated as a tourist attraction by the owner, Robert de Plumpton Hunter. It is a Grade II* listed park and garden. The site is now generally spelt with a 'u' (the older name of the parish), although artist J. M. W. Turner referred to it as Plompton Rocks, in keeping with the modern spelling of the parish itself. The gardens reopened in July 2016 following a major restoration of the lake, dam and woods. It closed again in October 2019 to bring the lake dam up to standard for the Reservoirs Act 1975, and reopened in September 2022.

Knaresborough Priory

Knaresborough Priory was a Trinitarian House in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. The priory at Knaresborough was the only Trinitarian house in the entire Yorkshire region. The house was founded c. 1257 and dissolved in 1538.

St Robert's Cave and Chapel of the Holy Cross

The early 13th century St Robert's Cave and Chapel of the Holy Cross, also known with variants such as St Robert's Chapel and Chapel of the Holy Rood, are located on Abbey Road beside the River Nidd in its gorge at Knaresborough. Once inhabited by Robert of Knaresborough, the cave is a rare example of a medieval hermitage cut out of the magnesian limestone river gorge with a domestic area externally and the chapel of the Holy Cross which originally housed the saint's grave. The trustees of the site are the monks of Ampleforth Abbey and in 1989 the Harrogate Museums Service carried out excavations after clearing the site.